Unit 22390

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: post retrieval fill 

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

Discussion: This fill was visible after remove the primary room fill (U22324). This layer was quite mixed, and when we werre digging we were able to see three different depositions, sloping from north to south. Of course all of them was from the same moment more or less, and there are the result from the process to make the pit, remove the post, and fill it again. There was clear a light brown layer, a bit more soft that the rest of the fill, located mostly at the edges and bottom of the cut, probably collapsed from the process to make the pit. In the middle, there was a pure clay patch, around 0.30 m width, that maybe can be the place where the post was. And finally on the top of everything there were the rests of collapsed materials, mostly plaster but also brick, mortar and makeup, being probably the last material deposit inside the pit.
After remove all these layers, we realised a new change in the fill, mostly for the colour and texture, a bit more greyish and soft. Also seems that we reached the bottom of the cut, at least close to the edges. Anyway there still was the presence of more collapsed material in the middle of the pit, what make us think that maybe the excavation of the fill is not completely done. Anyway this possibility is was not clear enough, so we decide to stop the excavation at that point, just in case that this collapse material belongs to the room infill from the building below. If we are wrong, when we dig the room fill, it will be possible to see whether or not the pit continuous.

The feedbak that we got it for the priority unit didn't give any extra information, because they didn't fine anything in the samples.2239 

Consistency: Very firm 

Colour: Brown dark 

Texture: Mostly clay and silt, but also a big patches of pure clay 

Bedding: Compound Layered 

Inclusions: Medium and large agrregates from brick and wall/floor plaster, (about 20-30 % mostly in the lower part of the layer), About the geological intrusions (2 %) there was flecks from rock fragments, and small natural stones. 

Post-depositional Features: Salt agregates and insect disturbance in the sout west part of the pit 

Basal Boundary: Gradual 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22398 below: (Click to view the record) 22324 

Total Deposit Volume: 140 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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