Unit 5197

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven foundation 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 1.12m (ew) x 1.33m (ns) x 0.10m thick 

Discussion: [5197 was a lrge foundation deposit which underlay the entire upper structure of oven F.555. Its south-eastern extent was difficult to distinguish from the truncated oven base above it and may have been removed along with the upper layer [5188]. in places. It provided a foundation for the earliest oven superstructure and probably the base for the earliest phase of use of the oven. Although clay baked layer on its upper surface, must have been removed when the later oven bases were laid. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid greyish-brown with patches of greyish-white 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 10% plaster, 2% charcoal, 2% phytoliths, occasional tiny pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: smooth, sharp + distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5201 below: (Click to view the record) 5195, 5196 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 148 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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