Unit 30051

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Tertiary fill of a hearth F.7957 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Description: Oxidized to mid red brown upon excavation 

Discussion: Within Hearth F.7957, U30051 sealed lining 30064 and was very similar to the overlying clay silt 30048. Other than the light brown/ red colouration there were no other indications of exposure to heat and this may be the result of the conflagration that consumed B.131. Delimited by U30064; U 30051 has been classified as a fill. Very clear interfaces at 30049 and 30048 may indicate a significant gap in depositional episodes (that allowed the surface of 30051 to become consolidated). Lack of scorching suggests that 30051 is not a deposit resulting from use of F7957 as a hearth. However, it did overlap the eastern edge of F7957 where there was a gap in 30050 (a later edge to F7957) and 30064 is very eroded. The former may suggest that 30051 was a tertiary deposit that accumulated during a period of disuse but the latter suggests that 30051 was raked out of F7957 either during the use life of the hearth or as a part of the repair/reuse of the feature. Was 30051 then the base of a second phase of use of F7957. 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: light yellow brow 

Texture: sand clay. 30:70 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: None 

Post-depositional Features: None. Appears to be intact. Sealed Appears to be intact. Sealed by later deposits 30048 and 30049. 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic. Abrupt. Distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30064 below: (Click to view the record) 30054 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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.

<< BackDownload this Units Data