Unit 7169

Category: layer    dug in 2002

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: kiln infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 0.60 x 0.55 x 0,23 

 

Discussion: This is an infill of an oven determined by its clay wall. The upper part is a silty clay with many inclusions of the construction elements (dome?). At the bottom there was a layer of burnt clay with a black burnt tiny internal layer. The whole bottom was an orange burnt clay ca. 1 cm thick. It was not well preserved and only a small pieces of the bottom have been found. A piece if worked stone (x1) has been found at the bottom, in the middle of the infill. Beneath the bottom, there was a tiny layer (ca. 1 cm thick) of white and light grey ash and baked sand. Below there was an orange layer of slightly backed clay(?). 

 

Recognition: infill of the feature 

Definition: within the feature - boundaries determined by unit 7171; very clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: from firm to soft, friable 

Colour: mid brown, dark gre, a few light grey lenses 

Texture: silty clay, silty loam and burnt clay at the base 

Bedding: layered: many small lenses of loose deposit and burnt deposit (unoriented) 

Inclusions: fragments of the kiln construction, lumps of burnt lay, flecks of charcoal, artefacual: pottery, bones 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7171 below: (Click to view the record) 7013 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 30

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 407

Features:: (Click to view the record) 966 (kiln)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2002 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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