Unit 8630

Category: layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: brick and mortar of the W wall 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: length 2.16 m; height 0,47 m; width 0.35 m 

 

Discussion: The unit comprises a mixture of bricks and mortar which the W wall of sp. 89 (F. 1017) was made of. This is one of the three units that the wall will be excavated in, and this unit is the combination of bricks and mortar.
First 5 rows of bricks form the remains of the W wall of space 89. Bricks are made of silty sandy clay, light brown/beige in colour. The same type used for later walls of building 3 (?) and space 89.
Mortar is made of very similar soil except that it was mixed with midden-like material (charcoal, ash, animal bones, obsidian debitage), which made it sticky and firm.
Rows of bricks and mortar are sloping southwards so that the layers of mortar ate thicker in the south part of the wall. Also south half of the wall is moist and darker in colour (bricks are orange-brown, mortar is gray to black). As was the case with E wall of space 88 (F. 168). 

 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: texture 

Execution: pick, trowel, brush 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: strong 

Colour: light brown/beige for the brick; orangish/light brown for the mortar 

Texture: silty clay and sand 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: bits of scorched clay, middeny material 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, plant roots 

Basal Boundary: earlier wall 

 

Dry sieve volume: 353 

Total Deposit Volume: 398 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 89

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1017 (west wall of sp. 89)

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: No

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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