Unit 4801

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Fire installation base 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: baked; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: 0.60m (E-W) x 0.55m + (N-S) x 0.02m deep 

Discussion: Base of fire installation F502 with extremely hard, burnt surface, becoming softer and less burnt with depth. Described as compound layered, but the apparently differing layers were probably the result of differential heating, and more likely therefore to be massive. May have formed a single structure with the superstructure, but again, differential heating suggested different elements. 

Recognition: Base in fire installation 

Definition: Confined by fire installation superstructure 

Execution: Trowel from edges 

Condition: Hard, dry and undamaged 

Consistency: Hard 

Colour: Dark brown to dark reddish brown 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Compound layered 

Inclusions: <2% small pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: Occasional root disturbance 

Basal Boundary: Clear, smooth, anthropic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4802 below: (Click to view the record) 4603 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

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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