Unit 10404

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Description: Fast track 

Discussion: General make up layer directly above plastered surfaces F1501 platform NE, E platform F1502, ad bench F1503, as well as floor surface (10411). Deposit mainly loose with a few compact areas. Contained a lot of debris material such as burnt mudbrick and burnt plaster. Likely to be room fill, although any layers above have been lost previously. Fill contained quantities of animal bone, pottery and obsidian, with some stone and some shell. Single unit number gieven to whole make up layer, delineated by plaster below. 

Recognition: Initial layer 

Definition: Between F826 and F1504 walls 

Execution: Mattock, hoe, trowel, shovel. 

Condition: Dry 

Consistency: Mostly friable, firm in places 

Colour: Mid grey brown, patches of darker and lighter material corresponding to inclusions 

Texture: Silty loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Plaster frags, some burnt, mudbrick, some burnt, bone, obsidian, stone, shell, pottery 

Post-depositional Features: Root and animal disturbance 

Basal Boundary: Very sharp, prominent 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10405, 10406, 10423, 10421, 10410, 10415, 10409 below: (Click to view the record) 10401 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 10543 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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