Unit 19150

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Make-up layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Compacted make-up layer laid to stop floor 19145 subsiding into earlier burials. Cut by burial cut u. 19149 suggesting that the deposition of this layer coincided with the burial of juvenile sk.19148 but the burial cut was dug immediately after deposition of U.19150 (rather than dig a shallow cut through the earlier floor & backfill with this makeup layer) either through habit/ practice, to ensure the body is nearer the surface or to stop the compacted makeup layer crushing the body. 

Consistency: Hard/compacted 

Colour: Light orangeish brown 

Texture: Slightly sandy, siIty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional charcoal flecks(<1%)I plaster & mudbrick frags (< 5%) 

Post-depositional Features: some animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: Mostly clear, diffuse in places 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19161 below: (Click to view the record) 19149 

Total Deposit Volume: 60 

Number of Samples 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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