Unit 5192

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Ashy rake-out from oven 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 1.16m e-w x 0.74m n-s x 0.05m 

Discussion: 5192 was a thin spread of ashy material which appears to have been the trampled remains of rake out from the earliest phase of oven F 555. Rather than being a single deposit which was removed from the bottom of the oven, it seems more likely that it is the result of scraping out ashy waste over a long period, which has then been swept up and deposited elsewhere. The remnants of this acitivity being repeated over and over again during this phase of use of the oven, seems to have slowly accumulated and been trampled into the floors around the entrance of the oven, producing this deposit, which is fine and intermingling with the clayey layer beneath. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Deep brownish grey 

Texture: Ashy silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: 15% ash and charcoal with tiny flecks of plaster and tiny pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: Salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: Sharp/ smooth and distinct where it lapped over the earlier oven base. More difficult to define to the north and west, where it overlay earlier similar ashy spreads. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5190, 5193 below: (Click to view the record) 5188 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 42 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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