Unit 15172
Category: Layer dug in 2010
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 1,5m EW - 2,1m NS -0,2m deep
Discussion: This unit describes the layer of room fill in Space 345 under unit 15168. Especially along the Eastern wall wall plaster could be traced, though it was partly disturbed. There is a chunk of plaster that seems layered and does not connect to the wallplaster. At the southern wall a ledge of plaster was left standing that might indicate a floor. In this area the colour of the soil seemed to change slightly, obtaining a rusty-reddish sheen.
At the bottom level traces of phytoliths could be found all over the space. Finds concentrated in the northern area, most noteworthy three large animal bones, rather large sherds of pottery with phytoliths residues and the x-finds x5, x6 and x7 which clustered together in the NW corner. After spraying the soil there seemed to be a darker shaded triangel about where the bones had been (already taken out at the time). The two articulated sherds in the NE corner reached deep into especially the northern wall. The rest of the room fill seemed rather typical with rather small fragments of artefacts and a mixture of inclusions (see above).
Recognition: one buttress, three walls, trench border
Definition: clear
Execution: handpick, trowel, brush
Condition: under shelter (sun reaches space in the morning), hot
Consistency: loose in western part, rather compact in eastern part
Colour: grey, dark brown, dark grey, yellow, yellowish-white, rusty-reddish
Texture: sandy silt, clay
Bedding: heterogeneous = lumps of clay, ashy and clayey lenses, plaster lumps
Inclusions: lumps of clay, stone, obsidian, pottery, (large) animal bones, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: aniaml burrows, roots
Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 107
Total Deposit Volume: 137
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 7
Number of Related Diary Entries: 4
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:: 53 Figurine Records: No 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
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