Unit 10618

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: single

 

Dimensions: 1.20m x 1.00m up to 0.04m thick 

 

Discussion: basal oven floor of oven F.1313. As wıth the others ıt ıs cracked and slumped at ıts southern extent. Thıs floor ıs laın on a bed of small pebbles ( these presumbaly derıvıng from puddleıng plaster from natural clays). The pebbles may have acted as heat retentıon and as a good bındıng agent for the rendered plaster surface. The maxımum sıze of peeble was 0.025m x 0. 02m. Thıs floor had the appearance of 'neolıthıc' concrete.
V approxımated. T.C.C. 19-07-09 

 

Recognition: very apparent oven floor within oven and below a similar floor 

Definition: good 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, cracked 

Consistency: compact, friable, vitrified 

Colour: mid - dark grey 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: frequent small pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: cracking, slumping animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10622 below: (Click to view the record) 10616 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 48 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 44

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 120

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1313 (fire installation)

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

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ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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