Unit 10703

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: Description: cleaning

Discussion: cleaning layer- pulled back from visible walls using trowel and mattock. Material appears to be debris from collapsed walls- brick, mortar, dirt, etc. and seems to be overlaying a layer of plaster. Frequent animal burrows and ashy deposits. Level is rather arbitrary. 

Recognition: defined by walls and different color 

Definition: boundaries identified by walls (up to a wall) 

Execution: trowel, hand pick, hoe, shovel 

Condition: very dry 

Consistency: soft to firm 

Colour: mostly mid brown, but with sections of white and grey possible building debris and clay chunks 

Texture: clay loam w/sandy and gravely bits 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones,pottery shards, obsidian flakes; charcoal (<1%), brick pieces (<5%),mortar, plaster (2%) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, insects, roots 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10711, 10714 below: (Click to view the record) 10700 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

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:

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

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