Unit 4928

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Fire installation fill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 0.40m (E-W) x 0.31m (N-S) x 0.06m thick 

Discussion: Area of very truncated material contained within oval cut [4929] and therefore appearing to be the remains of an earlier fire installation feature cut by F537, only the lower fill and cut of which survive. 

Recognition: Clear area of burnt, reddened and blackened material 

Definition: Clear boundaries with surrounding deposits 

Execution: Trowel from edges 

Condition: Dry, friable and heavily truncated 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Dark reddish brown, grey and black 

Texture: Silty clay loam 

Bedding: Compound layered 

Inclusions: <10% charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: Occasional root and insect disturbance 

Basal Boundary: Clear, smooth, anthropic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4929 below: (Click to view the record) 4923 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 7 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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