Unit 3607

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

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

Dimensions: 0.7 m E-W x 0.4 m N-S x 

Discussion: Earlier floor of oven, built before walls of oven (3365). 

Recognition: Found as concrete layer when floor (3383) removed. Also under ash deposit (3606) in E. 

Definition: Curved up at E to form edge of oven 268. Broken in N and surface stops before edge of later oven although broken crumbly part of this unit continues. 

Execution: Leaf. 

Condition: Hot. 

Consistency: very compact surface, friable beneath 

Colour: 10 YR 7/4 very pale brown fading down to 10 YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown 

Texture: loose sand 30%, burnt clay/silt 70% 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: small phytoliths 20%, white salts <1 mm 2%, ash lenses same as (3707) 

Post-depositional Features: cracked on surface and disintegrating towards N, much looser, hollow in centre 

Basal Boundary: surface; sloping down towards W and N, cracked, it has worn away to N and in centre (where thin ash lense was situated on top of it , 0.1 x 0.15 m), base; smooth/sloping to W and N/flat/abrupt/anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3732 below: (Click to view the record) 3606 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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