Unit 21177

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Posthole infill,Retrieval pit infill 

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

Description: Clearly defined in plan, with yellowish brown and ashy grey fill against surrounding plastered floor layers. C. 5 cm down, clear distinction to surrounding layers, with grey clayish silty sand. Unclear boundary to bottom. 

Discussion: Clearly defined layer in a rounded shape in contrast to surrounding plaster floor. The layer might have appeared after the retrieval of a pit in NW corner of space 113. It was defined as one of the latest units in building 119 after the removal of infill layer u.30123 in the 2013 season. It's located on top of cut u.21305. The unit was excavated using pickaxe and trowel.

The edges of the unit were relatively clearly defined, even if inclusions of the layer at times were noted in the surrounding floor and make-up layers. There are disagreements to whether the layer continues further down or not, as well as to N and W edges.

Notable is that the botanic lab recognized the infill as a typical midden layer. 

Consistency: Friable to firm. 

Colour: Mixed ashy grey and yellow. 

Texture: Clayie silty sand. 

Bedding: Layered. 

Inclusions: Mudbrick, plaster fragments, pieces of non-worked stone. 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, diffuse, faint, wavy, steep in N, W and S, more angled in E, uneven. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21305 below: (Click to view the record) 30123 

Dry sieve volume: 142 

Total Deposit Volume: 174 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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