Unit 5009

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Oven base 

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

Dimensions: 0.38m e-w x 0.15m n-s 

Discussion: 5009 was the upper most oven base of F I F 540 which was truncated on all sides by the deep sounding to the north and cut 5008 to the south. The material was burnt to a solid surface and crumbling badly but was clearly held within the edges of oven cut. 

Consistency: Friable but baked solid in places 

Colour: Pale orangish brown (burnt in places) 

Texture: Silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: 5% charcoal, 2% plaster flecks, occasional small stones, ash, flecks of clay 

Post-depositional Features: None obvious, but dry and eroded 

Basal Boundary: A sharp/ smooth distinct basal boundary, sloping northwards towards what would have been the centre of the oven. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5010 below: (Click to view the record) 5008 

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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