Unit 23602

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fill of a shallow depression pit 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit

Discussion: The infill (U.23602) of the pit (F.8342) was easy to distinguish from the surroundings due to the color texture and consistency. The unit appeared to be very small considering the volume of recorded deposit within the cut (U.23603). The lack of any finds might be easy to explain regarding presumable interpretation, that connects the pit to a holding purpose for a vessel. Regarding the proximity of the hearth F.8339 as well as context of others similar pits (F.8343/8335, 8341, 8344, 8333, 8332), the above presented assumption sheds a light on possible food preparation activities. As such the fill U.23602 that sealed the shallow depression U.23603 must be regarded as a secondary deposition which aimed to make even the surface before laying the earliest floors of Sp.531. Consequently the described fill had nothing to do with the actual role of the pit 8342 whose purposes should be referred rather to specific shape of the cut 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid-grey 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23603 below: (Click to view the record) 32760 

Total Deposit Volume: 4 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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