Unit 4951

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: remnent backfill,remnent oven debris 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: baked; Deposition: single

Dimensions: 0.15m (E-W), 0.14m (N-S), 0.03m deep 

Discussion: 4951 was a small chunk of material which seems to have been left as an isolated/truncated deposit beneath the backfill of building 23. It was removed as a compound layer since it made no interpretative sense, but it probably relates to the use of one of the ovens that surrounded it. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: pale brownish-grey underlain by a darker grey ashy layer 

Texture: mainly silt 

Bedding: compound layered (two distinct layers) 

Inclusions: flecks of charcoal, plaster, burnt clay, tiny pebbles and phytoliths (<2%) in the main deposit, 20%charcoal, 5% burnt clay, 2% plaster, <2% phytoliths in the ashy layer 

Post-depositional Features: cracking and salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: sharp and distinct, sloping steeply from west to east 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4953 below:backfill

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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