Unit 30844

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: midden,room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This unit is bounded by four walls and a terracing cut: f. 7172, f. 3952, f. 7252, and f. 7253-- along with [30229]. It is characterized by extremely mottled orange and grey silty clay loam. It is quite a mixed deposit, and a large one as well. It is recorded as proceeding underneath the top, later course of bricks belonging to f. 3952 (30856) but it should be noted that this may actually be due to animal burrowing, rather than the actual filling event. Otherwise, it seems that immediately after sp. 520 was filled, an effort was made to rebuild f. 3952. We have finished excavating the unit as of August 4, because of the appearance of a pit and new walls in plan. The pit runs under f. 3952, which tells us the surface which u. 30844 presumably could have laid on was destroyed before filling occurred. This is a similar situation to sp. 515, where the platform f. 7173 is not associated with any floor or surface-- presumably in both sp. 520 and sp. 515, the floor has been wrecked. The amount of bone and material in this unit suggests its use as a midden. 

Consistency: friable to compact 

Colour: mottled-- mostly light gray with some orange 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: charcoal, plaster, pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing, truncation by [30229], erosion 

Basal Boundary: somewhat diffuse-- came down on new pit running under wall f. 3952, signifying that this wall postdates any remaining fill. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 30856, 20272 

Dry sieve volume: 300 

Total Deposit Volume: 3495 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II 

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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