Unit 16974

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: mud brick 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This unit was already found in 2011 and now it was intended to be removed. U.16974 is located within Building 98 along with other three similar units i.e. buttresses. Its removal started with chopping frontal part up ot its back. As it was consisted of filling diverse material was found within (pottery, bones, obsidia blades, figurine). There was possibly late Neolithic pottery suggesting the origin of such filling material from East Mound. The removal of this buttress went down to possible different level indicated by remains of plaster. Anyway the scraping and cleaning of this supposed level confirmed no presence of an earlier phase. For any case a new unit will be opened at this very bottom of buttress in roder the foundation construction to be determined and its relationship with the floor of B.98. 

Consistency: compact fill with soft area, heterogeneous 

Colour: grayish brown, small pieces of yellowish plaster 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: heterogeneous fill with lumps of plaster 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, obsidian, ground stone, burnt clay, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animals burrows 

Basal Boundary: flat 

Dry sieve volume: 1401 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

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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