Unit 16869

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: Bricks 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS: 1 m;; EW: 1 m; Depth: 78 cm 

Discussion: Mudbrick in mudbrick wall F.5057, the eastern wall of space 341.

06/08/12 - Excavation resumed by JHB
Unit 16869 is the construction material of buttress f. 5057. The material appeared at first to be mostly homogenous fill, but when a clean section was cut and misted with a sprayer, fuzzy, regular horizontal lines appeared. These lines of alternating brown and slightly lighter brown are interpreted as construction slabs. This is in opposition to mudbrick (as seen in f. 5053/4 of b. 98), which has clear mortar lines and brick outlines. The slab material appears to have been made with fill from an earlier Neolithic source, possibly Catal Eat mound or lower down the West Mound. The slabs may represent a process of construction characterized by ramming earth and occaisionally laying in a layer of binder (similar to mortar). U. 16869 incudes all of this construction fill down the point where the exterior of the buttress f. 5057 is nio longer plastered and includes and includes all of this construction. Fill down to the point where the exterior of the buttress f. 5957 is no longer plastered and includes larger finds in the fill (the unit below is 16998).
Comment JMR: This unit was dug before we recognised phasing in the buttress, so it contains materials of F.5057 and F.3372 together. 

Recognition: it's a buttress 

Definition: clear all around 

Execution: big and small pick, trowel, shovel 

Condition: warm, dry, shelter 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: gray brown 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: homogenous with fill inclusions 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bone, charcoal, obsidian, stone, shell, mortar (?) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: flat, u. 16998 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16998 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 1312 

Total Deposit Volume: 1342 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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