| | Area: TPC | | | | Dug in Year: 2013 | | Feature Type: fire installation | | Feature Subtype: oven | | | | Location: NW corner of Trench 2, outside the B 110 | | | | Grid X: 957.38 Grid Y: 974.96 | | | This is a huge post-Neolithic and pre-Hellenistic (could be Bronze Age) oven, which truncated the S wall of B. 110 (F.3995). It was situated outside two Neolithic buildings B.110 and B.121. This is the latest oven in a sequence of three ovens found in that space (Sp.519). Their concentration may indicate that the area west of those buildings was used as some kind of activity area somewhere after the Neolithic.
Only E part of the oven was excavated as the remaining part is beyond the western edge of excavated area. Despite this, it is clear that the oven had a considerable size and was very high.
It consists of a few infill layers mixed with rubble. The brick walls were plastered from inside. The wall was of uneven width being much narrower at the bottom than on top. The character of constructional material and shape of the wall imply that the oven was domed. Its function is unclear but it may have been used for metal smelting.
The oven was arguably used in two consecutive phases. This is indicated by presence of plastered occupational level (‘floor’) half through the oven fill. Underneath this level, a large number of constructional elements, some of them really big, were discovered. At the bottom, a thick slag deposit was found. The inner face of the oven wall was slightly greenish, burnt and rough at this level. The very bottom fill layer was composed of a thick ashy deposit, placed itself on the wall, which the oven itself truncated.
Stratigraphic analysis of Space 519 implies that the oven was the latest in a sequence of three ovens in this space. It truncated the wall of the earliest oven (F.7190). Despite the lack of direct stratigraphic relations with the third oven (F.7181), as the later clearly postdates oven F. 7190, the relations between them is naturaly established. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | cuts: (Click to view the record) 3995, 7190 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | | Related Photos: 37 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 9 (Click here to view unit list) |
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