Unit 8551

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: wall bricks 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: 5 rows of bricks , made of orange clay, formed an interior (shoring?) wall attached to the west wall of building 3. Bricks are evenly layered, closely stuck to each oter, with strong sandy browinish mortar in between rows. Mortar has concentration of salts on its upper surface, which may indicate that the soil for making it came from marshes, marshy deposits, with ots of salts and carbonates. This wall is sitting on the first oven in this house (F. 1011) in the SW corner of the house. 

Recognition: color, consistency and texture 

Definition: clear 

Execution: pick axe, trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: extremely strong 

Colour:  

Texture: dry crumbly orange clay, same as F. 772 and 1000 

Bedding: layered in rows 

Inclusions: salts 

Post-depositional Features: mortar 

Basal Boundary: constructional, attached to the west wall 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8552 

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): 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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