Unit 3914

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven make up 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: max 0.07 but generally 0.03 m; 0.57 m E/W x 0.56 m N/S 

Discussion: This unit seems to represent demolition of an earlier phase of fire installtion. It contains fragments of burnt oven lining which cannot be associated with the fire installation floor (3691) as it is beneath it so must be either from a previous phase of this feature or burnt debris from somewhere else entirely. There are also fragments of yellowish white plaster, possible remnants of a sealing off of the previous oven. Both these types of fragment are set at random orientation and the whole deposit seems quite churned about. Possible the potential previous fire installation was sealed with plaster in a bad shape and then this was hacked up along with some of the oven lining floor to be deposited as a level layer on which to build later oven floor (3691).
1/9/98 On further investigation this appears appears to be make up for oven, probably debris from a fire installation from else where, possibly F.269? 

Recognition: Beneath (3911) more compact and contains lumps of plaster (whitish yellow) both units had fragments of burnt oven lining although more concentrated in this unit. 

Definition: Within fire installation F.290. Continues into NW L.O.E and possibly into W L.O.E. 

Execution: Leaf. 

Condition: Too hot. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: a) 7.5 YR 5/6 strong brown; b) 10 YR 3/3 dark brown; c) 2.5 YR 7/3 pale yellow 

Texture: consists of 3 different types a) burnt oven lining silty 30% clay; b) brown clayey silt 40%; c) plaster frags clay 90% silt 10% 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: a) frequent phytolith <4 mm 30%, <1% salt; b) <1% charcoal flecks; c) 

Post-depositional Features: none that I know of 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/diffuse/ as this deposit is made partially of the plaster layer beneath (3918) and brown silt (3919) slightly concave 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3918 below: (Click to view the record) 3924 

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  

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