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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 2005 |
| Feature Type: fire installation |
| Feature Subtype: oven |
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| Location: along centre south of building 56 |
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| Grid X: 937.6 Grid Y: 957.8 |
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Oven partially cut into centre of southern wall of building 56.
The oven had asmall lip at the front (north) and the roof had colapsed or been demolished leaving depsit 11695 over ash fill 11696 with grindstone cluster 11697 lying directly on the floor. The burnt floor is heat cracked and is darker greyer towards the centre of the oven away from the walls.
Sub square in shape internally 0.99m to 0.73m wide and 0.72m long. The front ledge measures 0.56m X 0.21m and stands 0.10m above the floor to the north. Oven mouth is 0.30m wide with walls standing up to 0.12m high at north and as little as 70mm at south internally. Externally the walls stand 0.21mto 0.32m high. The plaster covering the lip is coarser and greyer than that on the walls of the oven, this more grainy plaster has been noticed previously on the'working' parts of the fire installations.
From Archive Report 2006:
Two major phases of oven sequence were revealed during the excavation with later oven F.2060 replacing the earlier F.2076. Oven F.2060 was filled with demolition/dump (11695), this was removed to reveal a dark ashy deposit (11696) that contained a grindstone cluster (11696). The ash and stone cluster lay directly on the burnt floor of the oven (11698), this retained within clay walls (12809) coated with plaster facing (11699). Three dumps or levelling deposits, (11835), (11836) and (11837) were removed in sequence to reveal the lower oven sequence F.2076. This oven had two floor phases (12846) and (12852) these both retained within mud-brick and mortar construction (12847/12857). |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 2076 |
| contemporary with: (Click to view the record) 2061 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 14 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 8 (Click here to view unit list) |
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