Unit 12229

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: wall bricks 

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

Discussion: This is a mudbrick wall comprising the mudbricks (12229) and the mortar (13034). The bricks were orangish and of a good quality. They were attached to an earlier parallel wall recorded as unit 11583.
The wall originally belongs to Building 3 dug up by J. Mellaart in the 1960s. The bricks were placed on top of a midden (1520) layer itself located against the wall 11583.
The wall itself was truncated by late burial pits (f. 1915 and 1908). It consisted of 4 definable courses of bricks of the following dimensions:
upper course: 0,48/0,18/0.08; 0,72/0,17/0,08; 0,50/0,20/0,08; 0,11/0,14/0,09
2nd course: 0,45/0,23/0,09; 0,73/0,26//0,08-0,10
3rd course: 0,13/0,31/0,08; 0,36/0,28/0,09; 0,52/0,26/0,10; 0,40/0,25/0,09; 0,44/0,3/0,09
bottom course: 0,14/0,3/0,08; 0,67/0,3/0,1; 0,7/0,25/0,1; 0,48/0,32/0,09
It is worth noticing that the first mudbrick ineach course (the northernmost) was situated partly in the sction it must have been larger. 

Recognition: shape, consistency, colour 

Definition: wall E of wall 11583 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: orange, greyish 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, pottery 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: prominent, smooth, flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15820 below: (Click to view the record) 13034 

Dry sieve volume: 152 

Total Deposit Volume: 172 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds 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 

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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