Unit 7961

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: room fill,wall fall 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: full-on sampling 

Discussion: Tracking: Full-On.

This unit was to clear away the wall fall on top of the western wall of feature 1952 and to find the location of the western wall if possible. This unit consisted of large slabs of plaster as well as fill underneath them. Removal of the unit showed that it was the same as 7960 but had more plaster on top of the fill. The surface at the bottom of the unit joined with the thin plaster surface of 7960. The unit ends with unit 7966, which was at first believed to be the westen wall of the bin, as it is a plastered wall on the western end of the bin. However, the construction of 7966 implies that was not made at the same time as the rest of the bin, and from the way 7966 has been cut, it seems that 7966 came before the bin was constructed and was cut by it's contruction. Units 7963 and 7964 would have once made up the western wall, most probably, but have since been truncated.

The plaster on 7966 did not extend all the way to the plaster floor, but stopped about 3-5 cm from the surface, at the same level that the plaster end on the souther wall in unit 7960. The profile in 7966 shows a series of striations, looking like many unplastered surfaces going below the bin. These striations look very similar to those foiund in unit ==== which is directly below the bin.

Thickness of unit estimated in PX (DE 18/07/09). 

Recognition: plaster on top of wall of a bin 

Definition: plaster and brick that are not a part of bin walls 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot and breezy 

Consistency: hard 

Colour: white and light brown 

Texture: sandy-silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: plaster 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbances 

Basal Boundary: plaster floor/surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7963, 7964, 7968, 7967, 7966, 7965 below: (Click to view the record) 7960 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

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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