Unit 20164

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: mud-brick 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 5,4 x 0,42 x 0,34 m 

Discussion: These were the mud-bricks that made an eastern wall of Building 109 (the mortar was recorded seperately as an unit 20165). The average size of the bricks was as follows: length 78.6 m, width 39.0 m and height 10.2 m. However, it must be stressed that the eastern face of the bricks was not preserved due to excavations in the 60's. 

Recognition: shape, colour, stratigraphic position 

Definition: lying on the top of an older building 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: light brown, grey 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, bones 

Post-depositional Features: roots, animall borrows, Mellaart's trench 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20520 

Dry sieve volume: 284 

Total Deposit Volume: 314 

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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