Unit 22748

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: Bin infill, top part 

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

Description: heterogenous fill material with different colour and texture 

Discussion: This unit was first defined as a continuation of the rubble infill in Sp. 493, U21096 (2015 excavation) and U20703 (2013 excavation). During excavation this intrepretation was changed and it seems like this unit most likely consists of the inside contents of a 5th bin in Sp. 493 (except for the earlier found four bins F7197, 7196, 7198, 7182). Since this unit, the infill of bin F7280, conists of rubble material with inclutions of phytolithis but no seeds, it is most probable that the bin was emptied of its content (barley or wheat?) before abandonment. Left in the bin would then have been the organic material that was not of any interest for the inhabitants, which is represented by the remains of phytoliths. Samples of pytoliths were taken during the excavation, in the upper part (S.4) and the middle (S. 7). The unit was excavated using trowel. The lowest infill of the bin was excavated under a separate U no. in hope of finding plant remains and seeds (U31312). 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: orange-red to grey-brown 

Texture: silty sandy to clayish 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31313 below: (Click to view the record) 21096 

Dry sieve volume: 276 

Total Deposit Volume: 309 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II, III 

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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