Unit 19194

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Fill of plastered post installation 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Fill of plastered post installation on W. wall of B. 80. Backfill & packing around 2 burnt posts 18960 & 18961 within the plastered installation. Installation looks like it was designed for 3 posts but seemingly only the northern & southern ones remained in situ- central part of feature seems to be filled with plaster packing (aIthough this may have collapsed into the feature). Feature was originally found & partially recorded in 2010 with part of the upper fill left in situ as well as the lower part of fill (ie below top of plaster kerb).

All filI removed together as it has been badly burrowed & probably contaminated as it has been left open for several years. Contained worked bone cache which looks to have been deposited behind the central post & a number of obsidian flakes & tools which may have distributed through the deposit from a cache above. 

Consistency: Loose 

Colour: Light-mid grey 

Texture: clay silt 

Bedding: heterogenous 

Inclusions: moderate ash & charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: Contaminated with some modern material as feature has been open since 2010, also burrowing & root action 

Basal Boundary: unclear-probably not bottomed as getting very deep & narrow. Badly burrowed at S end of feature 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18960, 18965 

Total Deposit Volume: 12 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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