Unit 32057

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of shallow depression 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: A sandy-silt, mid-grey sediment U.32057 sealed a shallow (2cm) depression (cut-32058) in North-Central part of Sp.531. The depression was situated between two mud-brick structures recorded as possible columns (Eastern – 7726, Western F.7727) adjacent to the N-wall of B.132. There is no clear explanation what the infill 32057 might have been related with, in the past. It is possible that it represents an deliberate accumulation set in order to make even the surface marked by noticeable hole. Accordingly, the infill could not be regarded as associated with actual role of the cut and its deposition have taken place after the depression lost its role in the room. It is also possible that the infill together with the cut they both refer to a kind of deposit whose bottom part had been just recorded. The real extents of those two had been unfortunately truncated as a side cause of the activities involved with abandonment. In consequence the Northern part of the infill as well as its top segment were heavily demolished by the cut 31580 and related with it post-retrieval pit (F.7724) evidenced along the Northern wall of B.132. Hence, the nature of the deposit remains ambiguous. Worth noticing however is that the deposit contained of noticeable inclusions of white mineral salts which may imply decomposition of organic material within the sediment. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-grey 

Texture: sandy-silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: white mineral salts - 15% 

Post-depositional Features: truncation by the later cut U.31580 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32058 below: (Click to view the record) 21670 

Total Deposit Volume: 2 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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  

Lab Team Data

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