Unit 15361

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: EW 2.3m - NS 0.85m -0.1m 

Discussion: This is a layer of room fill in the northern part of Space 450. It is composed of silty soil and a hard layer of building material (white and red plaster chunks). At first this suggested that there might be a floor or a surface, but ist uneven nature and the presence of inclusions indicates it might be just a compacted layer of room fill. This unit seems to have close relations with the depositional events in Space 449 and Space 340. The fill looks similar, some vessels fit together, and Space 340 has ashy layers too - as the bottom of U.15361, Sp. 450. However, the connections are not clear yet, because the spaces next door have nt been excavated to the same level. 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: clear in depth down to ashy layer 

Execution: hand pick, trowel, spatula, brush 

Condition: under shelter 

Consistency: soft with firm lumps of clay and plaster debris 

Colour: brown fill with white red plaster lumps 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered (hard plaster lumps and soil) 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, lumps of clay 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbances 

Basal Boundary: fairly even, sloping towards west 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15377, 15372, 15373 below: (Click to view the record) 15340 

Dry sieve volume: 265 

Total Deposit Volume: 296 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

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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