Unit 13095

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: infill layer 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 3.20 x 2.30 x 0.14 m 

Discussion: It is an infill layer located in the central part of area excavated in 2006. In southern part it is limited by walls recorded as units 13059 and 13088. From the east, the layer was truncated by later cut, a possible foundation trench (feature 1941). Western part of the unit was truncated by Mellaart's excavation. Functionally the unit resembled an infill of above placed layer comprised of a mixed greyish silty sand with mid grey and mid orange components, mainly broken fragments of bricks and other elements of superstructures.
It seems that it was an infill layer which was deposited in a huge cut dug out after abandonment of Building 61 dated back to level II. The cut destroyed southern parts of Buildings 61 and 62.
The reason beyond this deliberate act is unknown. We may speculate that it was intended to collect material for preparing a make-up in some other place. The base of the unit was distinct and slopin from the West (1016.62) to the East (1016.51). The basal boundary in central part was defined on the ground of recording the top of rubble cluster so its form was wavy.
In the east, the layer was deposited on topof an older wall running north-south, along the later one (wall 12274). The unit's basal boundary in its western part easy defined at the level of Building 6 left unexcavated by Mellaart in the 1960's placed directly west from this layer. 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: an infill layer in the central part of area excavated in 2006 

Execution: trowe, shovel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: mid orangish, mid-light greyish 

Texture: silty sand, silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian, shell 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: layer made of a large number of destroyed constructional material 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13582, 15204, 13583, 15205 below: (Click to view the record) 13068 

Dry sieve volume: 860 

Total Deposit Volume: 882 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5

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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