Unit 3170
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: rendering of oven
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: plaster; Deposition: layered (wall plaster)
Dimensions: 0.26 m N-s x 0.12 m E-W, 0.25 mm thick
Discussion: Thin lenses of plaster and brown clayey silt which probably signify replastering of oven F.268 although can't tell what is original redering and what is later additions.
* Later it was realised that the top of this deposit had been truncated by (3354), bin 256 levelling cut. So those layers of rendering are associated with the oven before bin was added. This unit was physically overlain with (3175) and (3162) which cover both oven and bins.
The layers of silt have phytoliths in them and maybe dung. There must be a reason that they are putting alternate layers of dung? and then plaster on oven. Maybe it gives the plaster a better key or possibly enables the plaster to react to being heated and cooled without cracking.
1 litre of dry sieved soil contaminated. Dry Sieve Information: Unclear if any dry seive, could be 2L
Recognition: Seen in section (obliquely) in oven entrance and surface was revealed when (3175) and (3162) removed. Surface was mottled cream and mid brown. It was very difficult to follow individual layers as they merged or discontinued.
Definition: Appears on W of oven enrance stopping at the door although extent here uncertain. It continues westwards into temporary L.O.E. for micromorphology baulk. Stops at base of oven and at top with join of bin 256.
Execution: Leaf. Not fully excavated, some left in N/S section for micromorph.
Condition: Under cover.
Consistency: firm
Colour: mixture of 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow and 2.5 Y 5/4 light olive brown
Texture: clay 30% silt 70% (but really it is layers of plaster and mud)
Bedding: compound, more or less parallell but seem discontinous, follows curve of oven structure
Inclusions: mod. 20% white phytoliths about 8 mm long, laying along line of different lenses, mod. 10% charcoal flecks 1 mm diameter but some larger, occ. 1% salts 1mm and 2 mm diameter
Post-depositional Features: occ. salts, truncated from above by (3354)
Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/constructional/faint/diffuse/hard to follow interfaces/surface: slopes down steeply to N about 80%, smooth but very slight depressions
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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