Unit 8601

Category: layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: brick 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: N-S - 305 cm; E-W - 30 cm; 1 brick - 55 x 30 cm 

 

Discussion: We lifted couple of layers of bricks but the F. 1001 wall is not an ordinary one because layers of brick and mortar are intertwined - what had been a brick in one layer was mortar in another one and vice versa - at some point it occurred that the wall could actually be a stairway, steps abutting the W wall of sp. 201 and midden to the west.
The bricks are 6-8 cm thick and are shaped as a rectangular square, wall continue discussion. The southernmost brick (brown) was moist and greasy. Regularly shaped bricks (our peculiar constructional elements) have the following dimensions: 55 x 30 cm.
Once we removed wall 636 we are able to define brick courses (22.07.2003).
Three more courses of brick have been removed, wall 1001 id abutting wall 636 and runs paralel with it, also abutting wall 1006 to the south.
Gray brick:66x22x5-7 cm; orange brick: 55x26-28x6-8 cm.
Bottom gray brick course used as foundation. On top of that orange/brownish brick used much more than the gray ones (see section). Yet to9 lift the bottom gray course. Not sure whether wall 1001 had been dug into midden, to make foundation cut.
27.07.2003 - removed bottom course of brick - gray, looks like it had been cut into midden, likely at the same time as wall 636.
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Recognition: colour, shape 

Definition: a bit unclear 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: very dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark gray and reddish-brown 

Texture:  

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: salts, phytoliths, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole 

Basal Boundary: layer of mortar, constructional, uneven 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: none

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1001 (wall)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2003 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 1

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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