Unit 15160

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: roomfill with cluster 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 1.6mx1.15mx30cm 

Discussion: Cluster with roomfill in space 449.

Photogrammetry nails:
1. E 699.112, N 974.989, H 1004.678
2. E 699.074, N 974.060, H 1004.716
3. E 698.073, N 973.884, H 1004.667
4. E 697.999, N 974.910, H 1004.611

Unit 15160 is a cluster with roomfill in space 449, being located between features 5057, 5067, 3324 and 3326.

In the corners of the room are clusters of big pottery sherds. A huge amount of worked bone also turned up. Several pieces of flint and obsidian of impressive size and a lot of animal bones also came out of this unit. The upper part of the unit was very compact due to being left open the last year and being trampled on for quite a long time The untouched soil of the unit was quite loose, and contained, besides the huge amount of finds, some collapsed lumps of plaster in front of F. 3324 as well as part of floor in the NE corner, where some sherds are sticking upright in roomfill. This unit also contained a lot of clay lumps, as well as chunks of mortar.

Some of the sherds seem to fit to sherds belonging to Unit 15158.

I have the impression that the small finds are clustering around the pottery clusters.

The first interpretation of the unit as a pit turned out to be wrong, as it seems to respect the outlines of the secondary features. 

Recognition: loose texture with pottery cluster in space 449 

Definition: clear in W, S, E; arbitrary in N 

Execution: handpick, trowel, brush, wooden spatula, pumper 

Condition: pleasant breeze 

Consistency: soft-loose with compact spots of mortar 

Colour: dark brown, middle brown, yellowish brown 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: heterogeneous fill containing a pottery cluster, lenses of clay, plaster, burned clay 

Inclusions: a lot of pottery, animal bone, some obsidian and flint, clay and phitoliths 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, roots 

Basal Boundary: flat, arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 18324 

Dry sieve volume: 260 

Total Deposit Volume: 326 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 44

Number of Related Diary Entries: 19

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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