Unit 4277

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: fire fill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0.7m by 0.7m by 0.05m 

 

Discussion: Fire burnt deposit. Probably used as lining of the clay oven 

 

Recognition: under 4295 

Definition: within F.437 

Execution: Half section trowel 

Condition: good moist 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: reddy brown 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: salts, shell <1% occ charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: mouse holes 

Basal Boundary: clear, irregular 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4298 below: (Click to view the record) 4295 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume:

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

6 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

163 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

437 (Fire installation)
 

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No
Ceramic Records: No
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: No
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 21 
Unit description: Oven fill from Feature 437. Flot sample 2482 (Flot sample completely integrated into scrap and ID bags.) The bones in both the dry sieve and the heavy residue are generally light brown or occasionally grey, except for a a concentration of large 003 long bone fragments which are heavily burnt. The only bone identifiable to species is a badger maxilla, but there is also a smaller mammal present. Last Number = F.21
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 records
Phytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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