Unit 30548

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: The full extent of this unit was impossible to define due to its truncation caused by later burial activity. The fill was first excavated from the western side to uncover a number of long-bones belonging to Sk.30549. The bones undercut the platform and the cut of the burial was not well defined, therefore u.30559 (layers of plaster surface and make-up) was removed from platform F.6051 in hopes to reach the eastern boundaries of the fill. Once the thick layer of plaster was removed, it became apparent that fill u.30548 actually lipped the platform to the east, abutting the eastern wall, as if to provide extra height to the platform at its NE corner abutting the E wall, before it was re-plastered after the burial event. This lip was only about 1cm thick, pealing off to the E to surface u.30102 and then dipping into the cut of burial F.7137.

The fill was mostly excavated by fine tools. There was a very high concentration of salt within the matrix.

This may be the same unit as some of the fills excavated in 2011 - this will be evaluated post-ex. 

Consistency: Firm to moderately firm 

Colour: Grayish brown 

Texture: Silty clay loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Specs of plaster, charcoal flecks (intermittent), phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: Salt and gypsum concretions 

Basal Boundary: unclear on the base and to the N, W and SW, clear to the E 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30549 below: (Click to view the record) 30559 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 75 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds 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:

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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