Unit 15194

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: room and floor,room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS 1,2m - EW 1,5m - 0,2m depth 

Discussion: Unit 15194 is room fill that sits below two plastered floors (15190, 15191, 15170) and a cluster consisting primarily of pottery and animal bone refuse. The layer is very heterogeneous with many inclusions and highly mixed soil consistency. The unit is full of lenses of ash plaster and clay, particularly to the E end, which is directly beneath cluster 15198. I believe that these fine layers can be associated with the cluster above, particularly since they disappear in the western part of the unit. For example, the plaster and clay found under the cluster (visible in the section plan 10/531) as visible layers in the East are present only as small flecks elsewhere in the unit, and do not form visible layers. Small chunks of human cranium were found near the centre of the unit, but not other human remeins were found. The wetsern boundar of the unit is there plastered wall of wall F.3320. 

Recognition: colour - dark grey, under floor 15190, texture 

Definition: well defined in W, less so in E and; N: baulk - S: plaster line 

Execution: hand pick, trowel 

Condition: under shelter, hot 

Consistency: soft fill with firm lumps of clay, loose animal disturbances 

Colour: dark brown, reddish, creamy, ashy layers 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: compound layered - layers of clay, ash, plaster, and different colours of brown and gray. Most heterogeneous/ varied/ mixed towards E of unit. More homogeneous towards W. 

Inclusions: charcoal, bits of plaster, chunks of plaster, animal bone, chunk of human cranium, pot sherds, obsidian flakes, bits of shell, small stones, a possible bead, mixed fill with ashy and clayey layers. Some mortar chunks on N.borders 

Post-depositional Features: rodent holes, truncation by cluster 15198 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary, flat with mixed heterogeneous room fill visible 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 15170, 15191, 15190, 15198 

Dry sieve volume: 440 

Total Deposit Volume: 471 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 6

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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