Unit 7242

Category: Layer    dug in 2001

Area: Trench I 

Interpretive Categories: tomb fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 1.08m NE-SW x 0.67m NW-SE x 0.02 m deep 

Description: Area of hard, dried and cracked sediment. Clear edges with softer material around and tomb floor below. 

Discussion: This layer of hard, dried, cracked mud occuring in N and E of Tomn F726 overlying floor of tomb. Only 0.02m thick but made of many micro laminated layers. Each layer represents a phase of inwash and suggests that after completion the tomb was left open for some time, during which a number of phases of natural in-wash occurred (flooding perhaps). Following this the mud dried and became cracked by the heat of the sun. 

Recognition: Area of hard, dried and cracked sediment 

Definition: Clear edges with softer material around and tomb floor below 

Execution: Trowel and hand shovel 

Condition: Hot, dry and bright 

Consistency: Hard, firm surface becoming slightly softer below 

Colour: 2.5Y 6/1 grey (dry), 2.5Y 3/2 dark greyish brown (moist) 

Texture: Silty clay loam 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: abundant organic specks in surface, sparse material otherwise 

Post-depositional Features: some root disturbance 

Basal Boundary: clear smooth anthropic boundary to tomb floor 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7243 below: (Click to view the record) 7236 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

Number of Samples 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:

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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