Unit 3691

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor of oven 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: single

Dimensions: 0.85 m E-W x 0.46 m N-S x 0.02 m thick 

Discussion: Smooth, hard, curved surface, ovalshaped. Pale orange/yellow on surface fading through light grey to mid-brown reddish brown.

Floor of fire installation F.290, it begins to curve up at W end to form walls of feature but this is the only place they survive (in niche). 

Recognition: Smal part revealed in plan at end of last year. Fully revealed ( except N extent going back into baulk) after (3625) (oven demolition) was removed and after some of niche/crawl hole was excavated the last deposit on top of this being (3687). 

Definition: Oval shaped continung into L.O.E (baulk in N) and into niche/crawl hole where it rises up to from an angle. 

Execution: Area in niche left in situ (1/2 section) until next year. After the rest had been archived chemical analysis x 3, phytolith sampled and 7 archaeo. mag. sampled with a pen knife there was not much left to do except sweep the remnant into a bag for flot. 

Condition: Hot. 

Consistency: hard 

Colour: 10 YR 8/3 very pale brown to 10 YR 6/1 grey to 10 YR 3/2 very dark greyish brown 

Texture: clay 90% silt 10% 

Bedding: massive (although differential by heat) 

Inclusions: freq. 15% small stones, 1-2 mm, frequent 30% phytoliths <3 mm long 

Post-depositional Features: scorched 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/curved/?? 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3911 below: (Click to view the record) 3687, 3650, 3625 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 7 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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