Unit 4739
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: oven demolition/backfill
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 0.36m N-S; 0.50m E-W; - up to approx. 0.10m
Discussion: Mixed deposit - burnt material (dark brown) and orange frags. of fired material which look like very typical oven construction frags; - grey clay/silt; white plaster/floor material. All very mixed & with finds mixed in. - Appears to be oven demolition material deliberately used as backfill.
Later decided that this unit should have been excavated as two separate units - the brown scorched material on the surface separate from the demolitio material underneath. Will retain (4739) as the number for the demolition as the bulk of the material consisted of this & take out a fresh number for the surface scorching. (4967) - RT 14/7/99
Consistency: friable
Colour: dark brown/light grey/dark grey/off white
Texture: silt/clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: v.occ.shell frags; occ.-mod. flecks small frags. charcoal; occ. obsidian frags; occ. small stone frags; mod. small/med. frags. of fired oven material; v.occ. small bone frags.
Post-depositional Features:
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 5
Unit description: Oven fill from the central oven in building 23, space 178. Excavator did not know/would not tell us what the feature number was and the unit sheet is not on the computer or in the excavators lab at any time during work hours during the last week. Fill is light brown in colour with a few small burnt pieces. There is one piece of 03 skull, two tiny pieces of antler and one unfused proximal tibia epiphysis of a small mammal. Overall the unit appears similar to the house fill and is probably demolition backfill, not related to the use of the oven. Last Number = F.5Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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