Unit 3931

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: make up for oven 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: re-used superstructure; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.8 m E/W x 0.4 m N/S 

Discussion: Make up layer within cut F.290 for fire installation F.290. Containing fairly frequent fragments of scorched oven lining. Not known where there are from but a ?? is earlier F.269. 

Recognition: With difficulty as very similar to (3914) and (3919), I may have overexcavated (3919). 

Definition: Top merging with fills above. Abutts cut of oven (3932) to SE. Elsewhere in centre of oven cut. 

Execution: Trowel and with help of Shahina. 

Condition: Tired and confused. 

Consistency: fairly compact 

Colour: a) 7.5 YR 5/6 strong brown; b) 10 YR 3/3 dark brown; c) 2.5 YR 7/3 pale yellow 

Texture: a) burnt oven lining silty clay with frequent chaff fragments 20% 0.01 - 0.07 m; b) brown clayey silt 70% with frequent 20% chaff and charcoal flecks; c) plaster frags <10% <0.05 m, <1% salts 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: see 3 

Post-depositional Features: salts 

Basal Boundary: fairly clear flat base, curves to N, anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3932 below: (Click to view the record) 3919 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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