Unit 23013

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area:  

Interpretive Categories: posthole fill 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: post; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: New units for cut and fill of this posthole F7954 were assigned in 2017 since it seems that this feature was not excavated till bottom in previous campaigns. New unit numbers were assigned under assumption that this fill was different in composition than previously emptied ones. Fill of this feature was very compact and full of rubble fragments, charcoal and ash, scraps of plaster nad mortar. It looks like this post was standing until the abandonment phase when it was removed prior to fire setting. This theory is (somewhat) supported by irregular shape of the cut with visible traces of pushing and pulling the post from its place in order to free it and in that process destroying the nicely defined circular cut that was lined with plaster. This is one of the possible explanations why the cut is larger and damaged mostly on east and west side.

Plastering event that covers the platform F7954 as well as the floor of sunken area - unit 23024 (that was determined is same as unit 32389) respects the shape of this posthole meaning that at the time of earliest plastering event of this entire area this post was standing - up untill the abandonment. This interpretation might be incorrect in case that there was a plastering phase sealing this posthole that was removed in some of the previous campaigns but even if it were so - this posthole was still filled with burnt rubble - so it stands to reason that this could have only happend if the posthole was emptied prior to conflagration.

It should be noted that there is a later cut truncating cut 23012 - that may or may not be related to this feature - units 32310 and 32311.

There seems to be a lot of complication about this feature but from this perspective it looks like a posthole cut by some other feature comrpised of units 32310 and 32311. Whereas units 32317 and 32318 look like parts of the same thing units 23012 and 23013 represent, only not fully excavated. After detailed analysis of the units that are subsumed under this feature number some new feature numbers should be assigned to avoid confusion and enable phasing of these features. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: varied - from light pink and red to grey and dark grey 

Texture: sandy clay - 30:50 

Bedding: compound layered - mixed fill of varied materials - burnt building rubble 

Inclusions: burnt fragments of bricks and mortar and wall and floor plaster, charcoal and ash 

Post-depositional Features: burning 

Basal Boundary: distinct, gradual 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23012 below:31712?equal to: (Click to view the record) 32318 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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