Unit 5508

Category: Layer    dug in 2002

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: Continuation of one lying midden 5507 but numbers changed when walls or mudbrick collapse began to appear to West, along edge and in the center of the trench.

Bedding becomes less layered as wall tops appear more, like building fill, mixed homogeneous, but again like midden assembledge. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: mixed, mid yellow-brown, mid grey-brown, lenses of caprotite, lenses of consentrations of phyoliths and charcoal, lenses of ash 

Texture: clayey silt (40:60) 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: moderate t frequent charcoal small flecks and fragments; moderate chalk flecks and small fragments; occassional lenses of blackberries, phytoliths, bone, clayball, etc. 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: diffuse, dumping accumulation 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5592 below: (Click to view the record) 5507, 1095 

Dry sieve volume: 294 

Total Deposit Volume: 294 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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:

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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