Unit 4906

Category: Cut    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Fire installation cut 

Data Category Information: Description: hearth

Dimensions: 0.76m (E-W) x 0.81m + (N-S) x 0.13m deep 

Discussion: Oval to rectangular cut for fire installation F523, cut into underlying deposits (probably infill) and respecting the west wall of Space 173. Also appears to partly cut the fire installation superstructure (4908), suggesting two early phases of feature structure/use. These were probably the initial phases of a long continuum of feature use which continued with the later phases of use of F523 and then F502

Cut 4906 was filled with a number of burnt ashy layers (4904) and capped with a hard surface which must have represented a later base. The base of the cut showed some burning, which must have related to the earliest heating phase and burning of the ashy deposits. 

Recognition: Curving cut through unburnt deposits, containing burnt deposits 

Definition: Clear boundary between different deposits 

Execution: Trowel from edges 

Condition: Possibly some truncation 

Shape: Oval to sub-rectangular 

Sides: Concave 

Base Break: Gradual 

Base: Mostly flat 

Orientation: North-South 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4908, 4909, 4916 below: (Click to view the record) 4904 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

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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