Unit 23204

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Extension of Partition Wall 8159,Plastering of partition wall 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: U.23204 is the latest phase of F.8159, which is a low wall construction separating spaces 606, from 605 within Building 161, and abutted to the western wall of this building, Wall F.8169. 

Discussion: This unit is related with the partition wall documented in B-161. We included in the same unit the plaster (for both sides, the North and the South facing) and the mud bricks and mortar associated with the rebuilding of this feature in the latest phase.
In this phase the crawlhole that communicate both rooms was blocked and they rebuilt the extreme east of this feature with mudbricks and mortar. The bricks were dark brown, almost pure clay, and the mortar was light brown, with more sand and silt in the composition. This material is exactly the same type used to rebuild the oven F8160 in the NE corner of the building, and the retaining walls 32650 around it.
Plaster coated the entire feature during this last phase of use. The plaster was placed abudantly and unified all of the previous phases of this feature into one continuous low wall partition.
In this latest phase the wall was extended 1.06 m long for 0.32 width and had kind of semicircular plan in the east edge, not following the same direction as the earliest phase. At the latest phase the partition curved towards the North; the extension had direction SSE-NNW. We think that this new shape has to be related with the uses of the oven and also the transformations done around this feature. Seems that the access to the side room was the space between the east edge of this wall and the eastern wall of the building. (20/05/17-CB, VK) 

Consistency: Wall: Compact --- Plaster: Compact 

Colour: Wall: Dark brown --- Plaster: White 

Texture: Wall: Mostly clay (95 % of the deposit) --- Plaster: Dry and sandy 

Bedding: Wall: Layered (at least two courses of bricks and mortar ) --- Plaster: massive 

Inclusions: Wall: Small naltural stones ---- Plaster: no inclusions 

Post-depositional Features: Wall: Salt below the brick courses ---- Plaster: n/a 

Basal Boundary: Wall: Sharp, constructuinal --- Plaster: Sharp, constructional, levelled. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32672, 32671 below: (Click to view the record) 23205 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 206 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

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  

Lab Team Data

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