Unit 18372

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: raised platform / workbench,wall collapse 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: The mudbrick structure was recognized last year but eroded heavily before re-exposure this season. The upper surface was cut to a flat arbitrary level in the previous year. Possibly demolishing a plaster surface and reinforcing the structure's symmetry.

The structure was initially identified as a piece of collapsed wall. However, it showed no breakages that would be expected from a collapse. Furthermore the central position and alignment of the structure suggest that it was built or placed on the spot.

The most telling evidence is the large groundstone slab that was lodged ca.7cm deep in the southern corner of the mudbrick structure. There are no breakages or cuts that would indicate that the slab was forced into the structure. More likely the structure was built to incorporate the slab, perhaps to form a workbench. This is interesting as it suggests that the room was used for grain processing or similar activities. This is unexpected as the mudbrick-slab constellation is situated within and on top of fill rather than a distinct floor surface.
See unit sheet 31210 for more details on the stone slab. 

 

Consistency: compact brick / firm mortar 

Colour: dark grey brick / light yellowish-grey mortar 

Texture: silty sand brick / sitly mortar 

Bedding: layered vertically with a horizontal mortar base 

Inclusions: no inclusions apart from the usual animal bone fragments, obsidian flakes and pottery, some of it neolithic 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: distinctive (mortar layer) - flat 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31221 below: (Click to view the record) 31184 equal to: (Click to view the record) 31210 

 

Dry sieve volume: 101 

Total Deposit Volume: 131 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 15

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 21 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 105

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 342

Features:: none

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 2013 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 36

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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