Unit 30299

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: TPC 

 

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Interpretive Categories: wall bricks 

 

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

 

Discussion: This unit was extremely difficult to recognize. It is composed of extremely burnt mudbrick and roof finials laid in it, over each in perpendicular directions. It seems to be put in on top of the floor makeup layer u.30273, suggesting these bricks may be from a later interior wal. They were extremely crumbly, and seem to extend past the S edge of the trench, although the erosion at this end made it extremely difficult to tell. In excavating this unit, we expected a rectangular wall deposit but soon realized that we had dug into some Neolithic mud-brick at the W edge and were coming down onto an oven from an earlier period (f. 7159). We then deduced that the bricks of u.30299 were not laid systematically on a flat surface or into an even cut but rather packed opportunistically into this oven and the jagged cut [30229]. 

 

Consistency: extremely compact 

Colour: grey-- but also orange and black due to burning 

Texture: mud-brick 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: ash, charcoal, plaster specks, baked clay roof finials (see x-finds and discussion) 

Post-depositional Features: burning, erosion 

Basal Boundary: clear at base-- built on top of floor f.7153 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30273 below: (Click to view the record) 30246 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 959 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): 0 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 10 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 120

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 509

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7150 (wall)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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