Unit 15340

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS: 295 cm x EW 340 cm x depth 40cm 

Discussion: This unit consists of roomfill in the inter buttress area of building 98, sp. 450, 452. Its borders are buttresses F.s 5052 -5054, 5057 and 3326, walls F. 3324 and F. 3321 - to the N and E. The unit has arbitrary boundaries with spaces 449, 446, 340 and 341 between the corners of the above mentioned features. Unit 15340 goes ca. 45cm deeper than sp. 340 and 341, level with space 449 - as the extra hights in the sketch show (level 32 - 35).
Most of the clay ball x-finds came from the section towards sp. 340, suggesting that space may have a similar amount of clay balls to sp. 449. (Advise to future excavators: Do not x-find each ball, they are a cluster!)
In depth F.3328 ended (20cm down roughly) its lowest mudbrick being very well defined. This height roughly corresponded to the lowest limits of F. 3329 and 3334 as seen in section. These mudbrick features respect the earlier buttresses and therefore belong to a later phase of this space. They must have been heavily disturbed in the higher units, because the mudbrick outlines were unclear and mixed with numerous finds, while in higher units (unit 15177).
Finds tended to be concentrated along F. 3328 in unit 1534. Pottery finds were spread around space 450, clustering in the middle, accompanied by an ashy patch. The buttresses, because much clearer in depth, with plaster faces running to the bottom of unit 15340for F.s 5053/5054, 5057, 3326. Only the N/Ecorner remains problematic as the plasterline of wall F. 3324 disappeared in depth. The roomfill was farly homogenous, brown soft soil, with some large plaster chunks and mortar inclusions in the higher parts in the west side, similar to the previous unit 15177 and sp. 340, 341. A large amount of pottery was recovered, with several complete profiles and interesting new decoration patterns. A bit of unfired pottery, x-finded in the S/E-corner(x3), more unfired pottery from the dry sieve. Other interesting finds include a bone stick (x19) which came from the bottom of the unit, just like the bone stick found in sp. 449. IF interpreted them as tools for painting pottery.
Several ground stones came out, from the edges of the unit, x1 and x29 were associated with a nicelarge chunk of multi-layeredred and white plaster (x30) - more pigmentation related artifacts?Obvious link between painting pottery and painting plaster, please note that x32, ground stone, was left in the ground, because it was being partly under the section of the unit. 

Recognition: texture 

Definition: well defined by butress plaster lines except in N/Ecorner - v. unclear wall 

Execution: pickaxe, trowel, wooden tools 

Condition: hot, under shelter, freshly excavated soil 

Consistency: soft, with very few firm mortar lumps in W 

Colour: brown, flecks of white, yellow in E, creamy plaster lumps, black-ashy patches 

Texture: silt with clay lump 

Bedding: homogenous, with mostly construction debris in W 

Inclusions: ash, mortar, plaster 

Post-depositional Features: rodent holes 

Basal Boundary: aritrary flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 15182, 15177, 15339 

Dry sieve volume: 1860 

Total Deposit Volume: 1890 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 48

Number of Related Diary Entries: 5

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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