"Clustered towards the northwest of the platform and straddling pit F.91, the earliest f a series of intercutting hearth bases lay within a shallow scoop (4524), measuring '0.25 m in diameter by 0.15 m deep containing a basal fill (1846) of scorched silty soil. The section suggests we may have had shifting scoops for a fire setting, and this is the lowest excavated so far' (US 1846, NSH, 23.09.96). Two overlying fills (1693) and (1697) were sealed by an ash layer (1698), and a final overlying deposit (1696), was recorded as a 'scorched silty soil…in a beautiful semicircular dip. To either side east and west is more scorched earth which is either an extension to the hearth, throw-outs from hearth, or remnants of movin the hearth' (US 1696, NSH/MA, 22.09.96)." p.287
taken from volume 3, excavating CH. 07.07.2010 -SAK |
