Unit 5128

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Blockage 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: niche; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Dimensions: 60 x 24 x 21cm 

Discussion: This unit is identifies the blockage in the wall F 482. The dimensions of this fill given above. In front of the wall on the north side a course of mud brick where also on the north side plastered. This suggests that this blockage not appropriate or natural collapse deliberate construction. It is situated towards the west end of the north wall of space 178 and sits on the floor. North wall of space 200 makes apse towards south. There possibly were on the north side of the a kind of niche but later on it has been blocked. After a demolition or collapse occured in the north part of the building. Even it could be after an abandonment of the area due to debris which took place within this unit. 

Recognition: Differentiated texture and colour 

Definition: By the edge of the wall 

Execution: By trowel 

Condition: Slightly damp 

Consistency: Moderately form and friable 

Colour: Light brown 

Texture: Silty clayey 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Plaster and brick agg (<4cm, <15%) charcoal flecks (<0.5cm, <5%) and animal bones (

Post-depositional Features: None 

Basal Boundary: Anthropo/ sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 4516 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

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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