Unit 16988
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: roomfill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS : 405 cm EW : 295 cm
Discussion: Unit 16988 is a large section of room fill spanning nearly the entire b.107 except for a 70 cm baulk left long the western side for safety purposes. The make up of the room fill wasfairly consistant - mud brick rubble with (painted) plaster, mortar, and many inclusions. The inclusions were particularly rich across the entire unit, though they did seem to be concentrated in the center and the southwest corner. The main purpose for excavating the unit was to determine if the walls continued down and to clarify the faces and phases of the buttresses. Although nothing more could be determined about the western wall (f.3344), the other three walls did indeed continue and the bottom of the walls were no reached. U.16988 was also successful in clarifying the buttresses, as except for the eastern face of f.3338 (3308), all of he faces were found. It seems that the earlier phase of the buttress had sloped through collapse - either intentional of otherwise - and rather than flattening the buttress to prepare the next phase of construction, the next phase was simply built around the slope
Recognition: about 30cm layer of room fill in entirity of b.107, except for70 m from west. Wall F.3344 left for safety
Definition: clear, bounded in North by F.5074 (3306); South by f.2426 (3304); East by f.2425, 5050 (3305); West by 70 cm from f.3344
Execution: big pick, smal pick, hoe, brush, dustpan
Condition: pleasant, under shelter
Consistency: loose fill with many inclusions of firm mudbrick, plaster and mortar
Colour: mostly gray with tan burned mudbrick, white plaster, black ash lenses, dark brown mortar
Texture: silty sand
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, stone, obsidian, chert, shell, ground stone, bone tools, potstands, clay ball, pigment, complete vessels, mudbrick, plaster, panted plaster, mortar, burned mud brick, burned plaster, ash, charcoals, unfired pottery
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, plant roots
Basal Boundary: arbitrary, flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 3010
Total Deposit Volume: 3040
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 76
Number of Related Diary Entries: 10
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 151 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
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