Unit 18373

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: mud bricks 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: 18373 is a layer of mud bricks that beling to F.3349. This wall is the younger wall of B.105, built on top of two older walls, and separated from them by a mortar layer (18374). It seems to cut them above at the southwestern corner. The western face of the wall is below the section of the trench. We started the excavation from the north because it was visible on the top of the lower walls, and because the three walls can be seen in the section of the Byzantine (?) pit, in the north. However, there the wall is totally disturbed by animal burrows at the point of having more meep meep burrows than preserved wall. The organisation of the wall can be seen in the section of the trench. The wall settles down a layer of mortar (18374), with three preserved rows of mudbricks, separated by the same mortar. The mudbricks are around 5/6cm thick. Lots of finds were found, sometimes quite big, but it's most of the time impossible to see if they come from the mudbricks or only from the mortar layer because of all the disturbances. The x2 (clay ball) was found in the plaster layer of the eastern lower wall (black mudbricks). Only a few part of the wall has been excavated this year. The while feature will be removed in 2013. 

Consistency: compact mud brick 

Colour: greyish-brown, white inclusions 

Texture: clayey 

Bedding: massive and lots of inclusions 

Inclusions: white patches 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, roots 

Basal Boundary: two other walls, one with dark mudbrick and white mortar, the other one with an orange-brown colour, wavy, 

Dry sieve volume: 160 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

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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