Unit 4173
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: fire base
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: single
Dimensions: 1.17 M N/S x 0.045 M
Discussion: upper burnt clay layer greatest exposure to heat within cut 4178
F.I. Feature 416
Appears to be sloping dramatically from the North down to the South.
This slope has not emerged in the E-W section. This is a very substantial clay oven base with the fire base being 0.04m in the majority of places.
Deposit appears to be harder towards the south of installation. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve but probably not
Recognition: clear hard deposit
Definition: clear; within F.416
Execution: 1/2 sectioned; plan; trowel
Condition: dry; good
Consistency: hard
Colour: grayish - brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: occasional charcoal <4%, salts
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: irregular
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII
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: Yes
Count of records:: 1
Unit description: Flot sample 2385 sample 2 and Sample 5 >4mm, 100%, Priority Unit This is the uppermost layer of material from the fire installation from south wall of Building 6 (F416). It contains a large amount of oven material. The only bone is microfauna from sample 5. Most of this was removed by Emma for export. One long bone frag (mouse size) was left.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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