Unit 21959

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: hearth infill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This unit could be interpreted as an hearth infill, located in the southern area of the builiding 89. Its colour is reddish brown, but it is possible to see different patch of black or yellow clay, caused by the fire, so the unit is layered unoriented. On the east-southern part of the layer there are small lumps of calcium carbonated.
It was excavated by leaf trowel. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: reddish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered unoriented 

Inclusions: small inclusions of charcoal, ashes, clay, calcium carbonate 

Post-depositional Features: / 

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21964 below: (Click to view the record) 21957 

Total Deposit Volume: 15 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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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