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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 1999 |
| Feature Type: fire installation |
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| Location: NE corner of room |
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| Grid X: 924.5 Grid Y: 972 |
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Very large upstanding oven.
Phase I (earliest) consisted of a foundation/levelling deposit [5197], against which were teo separate 'lips' [5190] + [5195] (ie bits out the front!). On top of the foundation sat an oven structure [5196], which had been heavily truncated. There was no associated oven base. But the foundationd deposit was scorched so maybe the base had been truncated away.
Phase II - consisted of a good oven base [5188], which wasn't hard but heavily scorched. This overlay the 'lips' mentioned above. On top of this was the main oven superstructure [5160]. Possibly within this but more likely related to phase III was a very nice hard oven floor [5159] (left in on th north 1/2, truncated out on the south 1/2).
Phase III (latest) - an extra oven superstructure arm was added on the southern half [5158] (maybe the earlier one collapsed?). This was supported by a splodge of white plaster [5157]. It also seems that they added some odd bits of oven floor [5148/9] on the northern side (one with a bit of red ochre on it) as well as a new bit of arm. Its possible that these alterations were to do with a shift in the orientation of the NW (Phase I+II) to west (Phase III). It's also interesting to note that the shift ro Phase III was also accompanied by a big deposit across the north and west of the room [5184].
Finally, the oven was smashed up, infilled with oven debris [5076] and the platform F.553 built over it.
Associated units:
Phase I - 5193 (trample) 5192 (rakeout).
Phase II - 5185 (scrappy floor), 5184 (levelling)
Phase III - 5150 (rakeuoy), 5147 (floor), 5146 (rakeout), 5142 (levelling) |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 553 |
| below: (Click to view the record) 571 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 18 (Click here to view unit list) |
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