Unit 15359
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: arbitrary layer of room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS 3m, EW 1.2m, 0.3m thick
Discussion: Unit 15359 is an arbitrary layer of room fill that was step (ca.30cm) left over from the 2009 excavation. Within 15359 were two clusters: 15358, a cluster of large sherds and worked bone; and 15359, a cluster of construction materials (roof, mortar, plaster, mud brick). A mudbrick construction feature was discovered in the NW of the unit. This feature turned out to be an extension of F.3346. This feature becomes smaller towards south, missing the thick plaster along the eastern edge, plaster that is visible along the northern limits. Other than along this construction feature, the unit arbitrarily ended at the same depth as the room fill to the east. In the northeast of the unit a large lump of raw clay was found, and when lifted revealed a ca. 1cm thick phytolith deposit (s3) and a small piece of red pigment (s4). An articulated animal spine (x10) and burned mud brick (s5) were located adjacent to the clay lump.
Consistency: soft
Colour: grayish brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: heterogenous, with mittling at brown to yellow brown
Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, animal bone, shell, mud brick, plaster, mortar, flint
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: flat, sloping up in the north towards wall F.3311, arbitrary base, except in NW where base was F.3346
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 1078
Total Deposit Volume: 1109
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 11
Number of Related Diary Entries: 6
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 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 30 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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