Unit 2865

Category: layer    dug in 1998

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

 

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

 

Discussion: Layer of apparent base of oven, very hard light grey surface, cracked. 2 pebbles left lying on the surface, presumably heat effect. Also below surface signs of heating, brown colour very similar in appearance to "outer lining" of the oven. 

 

Recognition: Recognised on excavation of N half of (2852) immediately obvious on excavation, (2865) forming clear crust of relatively hard material distinct from consistency of (2852). 

Definition: Well defined. 

Execution: Trowel, 1/2 sectioned initially. 

Condition: Dry. Dry/sunny. 

Consistency: firm/very hard surface 

Colour: surface: 10 YR 6/2 light brownish grey (dry), below surface, with increasing depth: 7 YR 4/3 brown (dry) to 10 YR 4/3 dark yellowish brown 

Texture: fine sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: n/a 

Post-depositional Features: cracking through surface 

Basal Boundary: gradual/faint/smooth/flat 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2891 below: (Click to view the record) 2859, 2864 

 

Dry sieve volume: 8 

Total Deposit Volume: 24 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 14

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 6

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 4

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 151

Features:: (Click to view the record) 87 (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

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

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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