Unit 16967

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room and pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: NS: 100 cm; EW: 280 cm; Depth 90 cm 

 

Discussion: This unit describes the remaining pit and roomfill of f. 3331 and sp. 454, leading to the discovery of the southern wall and the naming of two adjoining spaces (453 and 454) as a building (b. 106). This fill had not been removed due to the Byzantine burial (f. 3343) found to be cutting the pit's (f. 3331) southern edge and therefore the remaining fill was taken out all as one unit though the SW side is likely to have been Chalcolithic roomfill. There was certainly a concentration of artifacts found in this SW corner of the space and perhaps this is particularly the case considering the area seems quite disturbed as the wall plaster is patchy and the higher 'step' of plaster found at the base of u. 16960 does not appear to continue to the southern edge. This discontinuity does not appear to be the original organization. The rest of the unit was mainly pitfill (slightly lighter and with fewer clay inclusions than the roomfill--in fact the roomfill, as with u. 16960 was very colorful) and was very similar to u. 15387 and 16928. At the base of the unit, along the southern wall, beyond the plaster layer (u. 16932) there appears to be orange and gray ashy inclusions which may support the proposal that this space may hold an oven. The finds in this unit were interesting, including substantial ammount of pottery, often large sherds and including a complete small vessel in the shape of a bird (though a section of the rim was lost in excavation). The marble mace head and stone axe make up the two possible weapons found in sp. 454 and this maybe the first mace head found on the West Mound. 

 

Recognition: Looser fill against southern wall of sp. 454 

Definition: Clear at top of layer where wall plaster is still present, less defined at bottom where pit has undercut the wall, more disturbed in SE corner 

Execution: Pickaxe, hand pick, trowel 

Condition: under cover 

Consistency: loose fill although more compact at upperwest part of original roomfill with compact clay lumps 

Colour: mostly brown with more cream, orange and gray areas throughout--especially in SW corner 

Texture: Silt with lumps of clay 

Bedding: heterogenous fill with clay lumps, lime and ashy lenses 

Inclusions: Pottery, animal bones, human bone, obsidian, groundstone, tile, flint, clayballs, worked stone and bone 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows, disturbed by Byzantine pit 

Basal Boundary: Flat though uneven--arbitrary in SW corner (still fill) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 15355 

 

Dry sieve volume: 1020 

Total Deposit Volume: 1020 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 33

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 12 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 106

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 454

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3331 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

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:: 6

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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