Unit 3917

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor make up,hearth infill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 0.42 m N-S x 0.35 m E-W x 0.03 m deep 

Discussion: Small patch of compound layered ashy material below oven debris to NW of oven = Filbert, filling a shallow, round? depression + continuing into baulk. Some material presumably also (3917) had been previously removed from the N part of the depression.
(3917) appears to possibly be the burnt contents of a small hearth. Further cleaning around (and removal of the ****ing baulk) should throw more light on this.
Removal of the ****ing baulk revealed this indeed to be a small hearth (F.293) until (3917) as basal and (2745) as upper fills. Partly truncated during 1997 season, Doh!! 

Recognition: Small patch of grey material (part of which appears to have been previously removed) below (2795) oven debris and partly infilling a smooth depression. 

Definition: Top boundary clear, botom boundary also clear. 

Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: firm crust over loose ashy lenses 

Colour: 2.5 Y 5/2 greyish brown; 10 YR 3/4 dark yellowish brown; 2.5 Y 5/1 grey; 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: ashy silt loam 

Bedding: compound layered (see colours) sloping down to N, otherwise between different layers not clear 

Inclusions: 20% charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: roots 

Basal Boundary: clear/smooth/anthropogenic/sloping down to N and centre of depression 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3982 below: (Click to view the record) 3933, 2819, 2800, 2795 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 4 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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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