Unit 15144
Category: Layer dug in 2010
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 2.0m - 1.4m - 0.2m
Discussion: Unit 15144 is an approximately 20cm layer of room fill in space 340. The fill was full of medium-sized chunks of red-painted plaster, as well as chunks of mortar and clay lumps of various sizes. There seemed to be a uniformity of the fill throughout the 20cm depth, thought red-painted plaster seemed more concentrated on the western portion of the unit whereas chunks of mortar were especially prevalent at the eastern portion of the unit. When the unit was sprayed with water, two darker features surrounded with plaster lines appeared, one located in the NW corner and one on the NE corner of the unit. They are indicated in the drawing. Of interest is the low frequency of artifacts in the unit (the most common finds were small animal bones). The walls of the unit were defined and, unlike the upper portion of the walls, were found to be unplastered and made of room fill.
The orientation of the red-painted plaster chunks in this unit is notable because it is so varied. Some pieces were deposited with the paint facing upwards, others facing downwards and others at an angle. Some chunks of plaster demonstrated two plastering and painting phases as well. The overall impression is that the chunks of red-painted plaster were deposited without much attention paid ti their orientation.
Consistency: compact with some firm areas of chunky mortar
Colour: greyish brown fill with orange clay, black, white, plaster
Texture: clay and clayey silt
Bedding: layered with red painted plaster and mortar chunks throughout
Inclusions: many chunks of mudbrick and red painted plaster, some clay lumps, many chunks of mortar, charcoal, some bone, few pottery, few obsidian flakes, few pebbles, few shell fragments
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows and one small root
Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat, but wavy in places from mortar chunks
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 820
Total Deposit Volume: 850
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 5
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 2010 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 99 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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