Unit 18351

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Mudbrick and mortar in wall 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: This is the mortar that is part of the construction F.5074, the northern wall of space 343. Was due to be excavated this season, but has been postponed until the next.

DSE and NMR 05.08.2013:

The units designs for excavation purposes the bricks as well as the mortar layers of wall F.5074. The unit is separated from the northern wall 2429 through an interfill layer 31121. On the west is the arbitrary limit of the west section. It sits on the older wall F3006 that starts at about the same height as buttress F.3009. On the western part of the unit, the bricks and mortar layers are regular, on the east the disturbance through rodent holes is great and the bricks very deformed. Thus it is hard to establish the connection with wall 2425. There might be a plaster layer in between, indicating that 18351 is older than 16842. The bricks are sloping towards north, indicating a possible collapse towards wall 2429. Was wall 2429 built to prevent a further collapse or did F5074 collapse in the space of the interfill?

Excavated with trowel and pick. For further infos also see Unit 31179 

 

Recognition: Shape, color, consistency; divides/separates the mudbrick 

Definition: Clear 

Consistency: firm, crumbly / loose mortar 

Colour: Gray-brown-orange / dark-purplish mortar 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: bones, obsidian, ceramics, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, erosion through walking 

Basal Boundary: F.3306 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 18352 

 

Dry sieve volume: 126 

Total Deposit Volume: 156 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 5

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 107

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 343

Features:: (Click to view the record) 5074 (wall)

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 2009 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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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