Unit 4174
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: Fire base,Interface , ashy
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 0.66m by 0.62m
Discussion: fired cracked clay balls were retrieved, mainly to the west of the ashy deposit. Upper fill of FI 416.
Potentially part of the (preparation layer) to 4180, which had been heat affected.
Recognition: fairly clear under 4173 fire base
Definition: clear within cut
Execution: trowel-began from edge.
Condition: medium damp
Consistency: good; fairly moist
Colour: mid-dark brown
Texture: silty ash/ silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: small stones, clay ball fragments, occassional charcoal
Post-depositional Features: N/A
Basal Boundary: sharp with platform remains (west)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
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:: 12
Unit description: Flot sample 2381 (check number) - had no bone Flot sample 4 , >4mm, 100% fully analyzed Flot sample 2 (2512 and 2382), >4mm, 100%, fully analyzed. More of the oven from the south wall of Building 6. Excavators believe it to be an oven base layer. There is a very, very small amount of bone in this unit. interestingly virtually all of it is burnt a very even dark brown, suggesting a very even, but low temperature exposure. There is almost no mixing of any sort, and no trampling or battering or digestion. It seems likely that this tiny amount of bone was mixed in with the clay material used to make the ovens. Note sample 2 has some burnt black, as well as brown, but not carbonized. NB there was so much oven material in the sample, that sample 2 had to be floated in two batches hence the two flot numbers. I have used the flot numbers in the database to distinguish the two halfs - but analytically the same.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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