Unit 5160

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Oven superstructure 

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

Dimensions: 1.4m e-w x 1.28m n-s x 0.26m thick 

Discussion: 5160 was the truncated but still upstanding superstructure of oven F 555, that was associated with its middle phase of use. It appears to have been contemporary to the oven base (5188) which it sat above. Its degraded souhern arm may have collpased or been removed when a replacement 5158 was added for its latest phase of use. Dry Sieve Information: Probably some dry sieve but amount unknown 

Consistency: Firm in places (where baked), friable elsewhere 

Colour: Yellowish-brown, deep reddish brown and oragnish brown-due to differentialy burning 

Texture: Silt/ clayey silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: 5% charcoal flecks, occasionla flecks of shell. tiny pebbles, obsidian flakes, skims of ash and phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: None 

Basal Boundary: Smooth/ sharp/ distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5196, 5188 below: (Click to view the record) 5185 

Total Deposit Volume: 465 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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