Unit 4278

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: fire remains 

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

Dimensions: 0.68m ew 0.65ns 

Discussion: possible remains of interior of the furnace of F.433
overlain by platform F424, 4183 plaster cover is above it. 

Recognition: below 4252 floors 

Definition: by limits of FI 433 

Execution: fragmented so lifted immeadiately 

Condition: poor v.dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: reddy brown 

Texture: clayaey silt 

Bedding: massive, ash lenses 

Inclusions: salts, rare charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: root action, mice holes 

Basal Boundary: clear sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4287 below: (Click to view the record) 4183 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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