Unit 15180

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS 1,52m x EW 2,11m x 0,35m depth 

Discussion: Room fill in Space 449. Located below the cluster with room fill 15160, unit 15180 kept in containing beautiful and exceptional finds. In the upper part, a large concentration of worked bone and pottery (especially large sherds) could be noticed. This composition changed somewhat in the last 15cm. Then, the finds in the room fill were mainly ground stone and large lumps of dark burnt soil showed up, as well as large amounts of collapsed wall plaster. The NE corner contained an antler of a red deer and the horn core of a goat, surrounded by a flint core, a pottery cluster and a beautiful, slightly convexe shaped bone stick which is painted red. The layer part also contained several clay balls, and it turned out that unit 15180 end with s huge cluster of clay ball (15343).
The soil of the lower part of this unit appeared much more yellowish, apparently containing more clay. In comparison to the clustering of small finds along F.5057, 3333, 3324, 3326, the centre of the unit seems to be quite "empty". The soil there seems to contain more sand.
Note on x-finds: X.66-72 were prepared for being x-find-numbers of clay balls, but never actually assigned to a fins, because we decided to give them a cluster number (15343) and expose the head of clay balls. No finds for x.66-72.

NOTE THAT ALL COORDS TAKEN ON 18.8. WITH THE TOTAL STATION ARE INCORRECT - THIS CONCERNS 151980.x56-65. WILL BE FIXED, INSCHA'ALLAH. 

Recognition: room between features 5057, 3333, 3324, 3326 

Definition: clear in N, E, S, W (walls), arbitrary in NW corner 

Execution: handpick, pick axe, trowel brush, wooden spatula 

Condition: pleasant breeze 

Consistency: loose fill with compact lenses of darker soil 

Colour: dark-brown, yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay, few sandy parts in W part 

Bedding: heterogeneous fill with clay lenses, ashy lenses 

Inclusions: lots of pottery, bone, some flint and obsidian, lots of clay balls, few chalk 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, roots 

Basal Boundary: flat - arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15343, 15344 below: (Click to view the record) 15160 

Dry sieve volume: 1270 

Total Deposit Volume: 1301 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 67

Number of Related Diary Entries: 13

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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