Unit 1088

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: make-up below wall 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 1.46 x 0.37 x 0.17m 

Discussion: Bedding below wall blocking. Lower blocking of gap between spaces 107 and 108, creating a stable basis for blocking wall to sit on. It was keyed into the 'doorstep' by cutting a slot through the floors of the step. This layer fills the cut in the step and continues upwards a little way with bricky bits and hard clayey matrix with more finds than in the wall itself. 

Execution: trowel and hand pick 

Condition: hot, dry and sunny 

Consistency: moderately strong 

Colour: 2.5Y 5/3 - 6/3 light olive brown - light yelowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: Phytolith frequet; occasional medium bone; occasional small and medium chrcoal; occasional hack berry 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: lower boundary of fill contains plaster and clay patches, very mixed, thrown into base of cut. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1519 below: (Click to view the record) 1086 

Dry sieve volume: 95 

Total Deposit Volume: 132 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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