Unit 5117

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Oven base 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 25 x 40 x 6cm 

Discussion: This is a remnant of an oven base. Situated right underneath the oven that has been built on top of the wall F 551 that must be earlier oven's remnant in this area. It still have stone and clay balls laid out the bottom of the oven. Orientated n/s diection and exactly it is on top of the wall and some of the floors over it. Or at least must be some repair on the wall plaster after that is built in te area.
However further excavations into 5117 show that strange shape of cut housed this fire installation. 

Recognition: By eye and colour 

Definition: Defined by the south wall and plaster application 

Execution: Trowel 

Condition: Damp 

Consistency: Moderately firm and friable 

Colour: Dark brown 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Clay balls, stones, ash, plaster agg 

Post-depositional Features: None 

Basal Boundary: Anthropo/ sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5120 below: (Click to view the record) 5119 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 17

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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