Unit 3732

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven build 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 0.72 m E/W x 0.72 m N/S x max 0.12 m thick; 0.35 m high 

Discussion: Build of oven made of many alternate layers of thick white clay/plaster and thin lenses of grey silt and charcoal. The inside of the oven is scorched dark reddish brown and this is visible on outside of oven where it has been truncated by (3352). The lining (3171) seems to be of a different material (more organics) not just differential burning.

Are large lumps of charcoal accidentally introduced into build or there for a purpose. Are they organics that have been burnt to charcoal once oven is used. 

Recognition: Partially seen at beginning of season but truly revealed when (3170) and (3354) excavated. Corched on inside of oven white clay/plaster with lenses of grey silt, multi layered. 

Definition: Continues into baulk section for micromorph in W. Abutts wall to S 79 and wall to W 93. 

Execution: Leaf, 1/2 sectioned. Oven lining (3371) excavated at same time as not strong enough to survive on its own. 

Condition: Bright, covered. 

Consistency: strong, but more brittle where scorched 

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/2 pinkish grey; 2.5 YR 8/2 pale yellow 

Texture: clay 50%, sand 10%, silt 40% 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: phytoliths 5% up to 3 mm long, 1% small <2 mm stones, 1% burnt clay lumps 1 mm <1% <2mm hard white lumps (salts?lime?), 1% charcoal flecks <2mm, 5% lenses up to 3 mm thick of grey silt with frequent salts + phytoliths and charcoal up to 4 mm; frequent large lumps of charcoal towards base of deposit <20 mm long and more phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by (3373) and above by (3354) and to E by (3352), occasional root actions 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/abrupt/smooth/curved/convex; inside of oven is scroched to a dark reddish brown this is covered with (3171), also scorched, oven lining, both of these surfaces are very smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3643 below: (Click to view the record) 3607, 3170, 3352 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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