Unit 31312

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: lower infil of bin 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Discussion: This unit consists of the last centimeters of rubble infill from the collapse of Sp. 493 covering a layer of phytoliths in the bottom (sample 6). The top of the layer was arbitrary defined as it protected the phytolith deposited in the bin F 7280 while awaiting advice from the personel of the botanics lab. The large assambledge of phytoliths in the bottom of the bin may represent the remins of plant material that originally was filling the whole bin. This phytolith material as well as other samples taken during the excavation of the bin F7280 (sample 4-5 this unit + sample 4 & 7 U 22748) seems to derive mainly from chaff. It might be that this materal was stored to be used as a raw material of some sort. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: brown-orange 

Texture: sandy silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31313 below: (Click to view the record) 22748 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 96 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II, III 

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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