Unit 18678
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: hearth fill
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth
Discussion: Deposit filling plaster molding - nearly rectangular deposit of yellow-brown clay loam. Edge less apparent to eastern edge-- color was more grey in color. Layer peeled off in extremely compact sheets to reveal compact, ashy, grey brown silty clay loam layer below. 18678 was largely homogenous, with little mottling, some ash inclusions, & few artifacts. It appears to be the fill of a hearth or oven, which involved the low plaster molding south of this fill, & was likely packed tightly and deliberately.
Rectangular moulding made in floor (18679) was filled with this deposit, probably to level it as fill flush with the surrounding floor.
Recognition: Clear cut along west edge: compact yellow-brown clay loam in rectangular conformation
Definition: Clear along west edge-- more gray-brown toward east but still clear
Execution: Trowel -- Came off easily in massive peds, revealing even firmer ashy clay layer below
Condition: warm, breezy
Consistency: firm
Colour: yellow-brown
Texture: clay loam, massive, flat peds
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: some charcoal , ash but mostly homogenous
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: clear , change in soil texture and colour (firm grey, mottled ashly clay loam )
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 5
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
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X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2011 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
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