Unit 20289

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: pit infill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: basin; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This is an infill of a small post-neolithic pit (F.3969). It was recognised in the 2012 excavation season. We expected that it would be shallow, as workers have removed some soil from its top. Unexpectedly it turned out to be quite deep.
During the exploration, the pit's soil changed colour from light brown to brown with orange spots. On the E side an orange-yellow brick (?) appeared. The infill was homogenous with some finds such as pottery, animal bones, ground stones and a few obsidian flakes. There were also single fragments of green mineral.
In SW part of the pit some bones appeared which were very similar to those from dog skeleton (F.3997), excavated a few days earlier.
We also found a new pit in our cut (u.20290), so we decided to close this unit and open a new in next days. At the bottom of the cut, we found another unspecified cut. 

Consistency: firm, soft on the N side 

Colour: light brown, brown, orange spots 

Texture: silt with some clay inclusions 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: phytolits, charcoal, clay, green mineral 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20290 below: (Click to view the record) 30253 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 130 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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