Unit 31176

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: mud brick 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: Mudbrick of buttress 5062.Super dry and so hard to remove. More heterogeniuous than f. 3346 excavated before. The mortar seems to be stuck in the mud brick layers as if the people who built this construction have put material when it was wet so now mortar and mud are stuck together.

After removing the buttress until the ground, it appears that its layers of mortar and mud brick continue towards the wall (f.3346) so finally it seems that the buttress is sitting on a wall. I thought it was a gigantic buttress next to a wall, but it is a small buttress sitting on a large wall.

The different layers are heterogenous especially for the mortar. There is also one red yellow mud brick. It seems that the wall and the buttress were built fast without caring about its shape. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: greyish-brown 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: small pieces of burnt mud brick 

Post-depositional Features: animal burows 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31108 

Dry sieve volume: 849 

Total Deposit Volume: 880 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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