Unit 3946

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven burning layer 

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

Dimensions: 0.42 m E-W x 0.38 m N-S 

Discussion: Small, sub-semi-circular patch of material at entrance to oven F269, overlying both the hard platform outside the oven and the edge of the internal blackened oven floor. Consists of a very thin firm crust above darker finer layers of alternating soft and hard material (excavated as compound layer as very thin layer impossible to excavate individually). Appears to be uppermost layer of oven external platform and overlying oven base. However, layer of extended platform below appears to continue beneath oven floor, suggesting a possibly complex multi-phase oven construction. 

Recognition: Patch of grey-brown sediment at entrance of F269. 

Definition: Clear, pale surfaced deposit, below red/orange oven debris + overlying orange brown material. 

Execution: Leaf trowel. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: firm surface and friable underneath 

Colour: 2.5 Y 6/2 light brownish grey (surface); 10 YR 4/2 dark greyish brown (below) 

Texture: sandy silt loam 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: abundant (>10%) tiny white fibres 

Post-depositional Features: none apparent 

Basal Boundary: clear/smooth/anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3989, 3995 below: (Click to view the record) 2800, 2795, 2819, 3933 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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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