Unit 8643

Category: layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: fill/packing (rubble) 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: N-S - 1.71 m; E-W - 1.22 m 

 

Discussion: When the unit 8638 (midden) we exposed the bottom end of interior face of the north wall of sp. 88. In order to discover the continuation of east and south wall of of the space, we removed the upper part of the rubble (this unit). It helped us see that both east and west wall sit on earlier walls and follow their direction and configuration. On top of those earlier (black-bricked) walls, a layer of mortar was put first, and after that rows of bricks were layed for the new walls.
On the interior earlier east and south walls, a yellow line of plaster is seen, either from the wall, or from a floor of this earlier space.
Rubble deposit is placed within earlier walls, so it must have been used as a packing to level the surface as well as the packings above it, although it could be that the midden-like deposit above was actually a real midden and later on they decided to use this room for other purposes.
Anyway, this rubble consisted of chunks of schorched clay, stuffed in with middeny soil, bits of bricks and oven floors and chunks of plaster.
Photo N - 20030714_BACH_026/036 - the end of space 88 

 

Recognition: by consistency, texture and colour 

Definition: clear 

Execution: mattock 

Condition: moist 

Consistency: very strong 

Colour: yellowish-brown to orange 

Texture: stuffed, almost scorched clay, chunky, mixed with middeny soil, bricky material 

Bedding: compound/massive 

Inclusions: bits of charcoal, animal bones, pieces of an oven floor 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: midden 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8632 

 

Dry sieve volume: 90 

Total Deposit Volume: 118 

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 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 88

Features:: (Click to view the record) 150 (burial)

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:: 3

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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