Unit 32027

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: preparation layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: A preparation layer U.32027 which was recorded under the fragments of the oven superstructure (U.32026) was accumulated within irregular shallow cut (U. 32028). The presented here deposit consisted of burnt sediments within whom varied material was able to distinguished. It seems that the layer U.32027 composed mainly of a rubble of an earlier fire-installation that most plausibly had been demolished to use the material as a kind of leveling (packing) deposit to make even the concave surface of the cut U.32028.
Taking into consideration the above mentioned notions one may state that an idea concerning the employment and re-use remains of older fire-installation in particular purpose might have had also ideological (symbolical) meaning. The latter assumption may find a good affirmation regarding the presence of the older oven (F.7732) whose exploitation was ceased at some point when residents decided to set new oven (F.7737) instead. Worth noticing is that within the deposit there were fragments of broken clay-balls identified that were spread all over the layer laying on different positions and heights.
It must be emphasized here that the preparation layer (32027) as well as overlying remains of the superstructure U.32026 together with cuts (32048 and 32028) they altogether constitute the earliest phase of the use the described above spot as fire-installation after ceasing the exploitation of nearby oven F.7732 to the West 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid brown, mid-grey 

Texture: silt, silty-clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: different size of fragments of demolished fire-instalation(s) effected by the high temperature - 70% 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct - edge of the cut 32028 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32028 below: (Click to view the record) 32026 

Total Deposit Volume: 22 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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