Unit 4735

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven base 

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

Dimensions: 0.44m diameter; appprox. 0.03m - 0.05m thick 

Discussion: - fairly typical of oven base material in appearance - colour and texture - although not quite sure how typical it is to have rim around edge otherwise flat but inclined west to east. Base not baked as hard as other oven bases I've excavated or seen. Discernable crust but easy to excavate. Originally same as unfired light brown clayey? material below ? (4736). Maybe hearth rather than oven - poss. different in some way to other ovens ( this located in middle of room ).No evidence left in situ of oven superstructure. 

Recognition: dark brown rim of material visible after removal of Mellart backfill - characteristic of oven 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: damp 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: light to mid (slightly orangy) brown on surface; dark brown below 

Texture: silt - small sand fraction 

Bedding: massive - except crust formed at top 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: smooth - concave 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4736 below: (Click to view the record) 4734 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

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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