Unit 21348

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Foundation bricks/mortar 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This unit comprised the final two foundation courses of brick and mortar in the western wall (F3656) of space 40. The course was made up of three large (long) bricks with a slight difference in colour from the previous courses (U21303). The unit was excavated using a trowel and small pickaxe to remove large chunks. Doing so revealed the bricks of an older wider wall that we had seen poking out from underneath before we started excavating. We included the last course of mortar in this unit, because it was very compact, thin and hard to distinguish from the brick. In this case we failed to do so occasionally.

The last course of the foundation bricks was recognized a bit later in the course of the excavation. It abutted the older wall mentioned above. By some reasons the older wall was kept for foundation - with one new brick - to make a foundation course. Another was added to provide stability to this foundation probably. 

Consistency: Friable to hard/compact 

Colour: Light brown 

Texture: Clay/silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Secondary carbonates (mortar) 

Post-depositional Features: Erosion (due to exposure) 

Basal Boundary: Distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21307 below: (Click to view the record) 21308 

Total Deposit Volume: 51 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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