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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 1999 |
| Feature Type: fire installation |
| Feature Subtype: oven |
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| Location: central southern wall of building 23 |
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| Grid X: 909.94 Grid Y: 967.5 |
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A simple hearth, with a single base and a possible remnant of oven superstructure.
F529 was the remains of a truncated hearth against the southern wall of building 23 / space 170. The main part of the hearth consisted of a simple burnt clay oven base [4767] that lay in a shallow cut [4776] into the surrounding grey packing material [4773]. To the west of this was the truncated remains of what could have been the superstructure of this oven [4787]. This interpretation is supported by the way that the superstructure curves around the hearth and it is possible (with a bit of imagination!) to trace a scar where it once arched towards the hearth base, in the plaster on the wall to the south. However, since the hearth base and cut are seperated from the superstructure by the 'floor packing' layer [4773] this seems to be a very unusaul structure for an oven. We would either re-interpret [4773] as oven foundation material, or re-interpret [4787] as some sort of E-W partition / divide. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 524 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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