Unit 1355

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: wall 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall (blocking etc); Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 200 x 20 x 

Description: Description of plaster / mortar 

Discussion: Partition wall dividing Space 70 into N&S halves; top few courses especially along the west side previously removed in '95; wall consist of variously sized bricks- chiefly of 2 kind -mostly laid on bed - larger bricks along the base and eastern half, with smaller bricks at the west end. Many of the bricks clearly re-used especially the 'grey sandy' type which are often enclosed in the original mortar matrix, a much paler mortar than that used in the construction of (1355). Some of these smaller bricks appear to have been laid on end. Along the western half for 80 cm out from the wall the bricks are set in a depression 6-3 cm deep & appear to continue/be bonded into the main N_S outer wall suggesting there was an original short projecting wall/screen which was extended/rebuilt to partition the room completely.
At the eastern end about 30 cm out from the E. wall and for about 90 cm, the mortar was / overlay burnt material, very red in places.
(For sketch of wall see attached drawings on graph paper).
The wall may have been built contemporaneously with the E>W> partition wall in Space 71, however, that wall had more regular brick courses, was cut into the floor (probably) & may have acted as a retaining wall for rubble/room infill to the south. This wall (1355) may had upper floors associated with it to the north & plaster traces only definitely survive along the north face although some less certain traces do exist on the south face - all the plaster also only really occurs at the very eastern end of the wall. What does mean? Perhaps the N. half of Space 70 was a room and the S. half outside, associated with an outside over (phase II FI II) which were all part of the same phase as the N. half of Space 71, & Spaces 110 & 111.

Mudbrick
Type 1 Type 2
Sandy/gritty Loamy pale
Grey Olive brown
(see S.2) (see S.3)
20 x20 x4 cm 28 x18 x5.5 cm 

Execution: Handpick and trowel 

Condition: Dry 

Consistency: Moderately firm / Slightly weak 

Colour: 2.5 Y 8/1 White / 7.5 YR 5/6 strong brown 

Texture: Sandy silt / silty clay loam 

Bedding: Massive / Massive 

Inclusions: Charred remains, phytoliths, pseudomorphic voids, natural aggregates of soil / Fragments of red mudbrick 2% <1.5 cm & charcoal 2% <0.5 cm 

Post-depositional Features: Roots, insect holes, salts / roots 

Basal Boundary: Clear / prominent, flat, smooth, sharp <2mm 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2170, 2165, 2198, 2171, 2517, 2522, 2181, 2166, 2167 below: (Click to view the record) 1190 

Dry sieve volume: 210 

Total Deposit Volume: 239 

Number of Samples 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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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