Unit 5190

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven 'lip' 

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

Dimensions: 0.36m (e-w) x 0.77m (n-s) x 0.03m 

Discussion: [5190] was a deposit of gritty, silty clay material which had been shaped to form a 'lip' or 'apron' at the entrance to the earliest phase of oven F.555 

Recognition: colour/texture 

Definition: sharp 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool/breezy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: pale yellowish-brown 

Texture: sandy silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 2% charcoal, 5% phytoliths, occasional tiny pebbles + flecks of plaster 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: sharp, smooth + distinct, sloping from north to south 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5195 below: (Click to view the record) 5192 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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