Unit 12139
Category: Layer dug in 2005
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: niche fill
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: niche; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Description: Niche in North dividing wall of building 57 of feature 2114.
Discussion: Excavation of niche in wall (F 2114) = North divind wall B 57.
Very compact mudbrick, thick lar of plaster that at first appeared to be an internal shelf turned out to be floating. Was perhaps once a shelf bad badly destroyed.
Plaster floor broken in west corner of niche, covered by small flat stone (lifted). Revealed bone below floor (not lifted).
Recognition: Fill within plaster outline
Definition: Clear
Execution: Trowel
Condition: Hot, windy
Consistency: Compact
Colour: Mid-orangy brown
Texture: Sandy
Bedding: Thick layers, including a plaster layer
Inclusions: Thick layers of brick/mortar collapses; stone, bone
Post-depositional Features: Roots, insect holes, rodent burrows
Basal Boundary: Clear
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 105
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2005 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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