Unit 1096

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Dimensions: 0.75m N-S, x 0.24m E-W x 0.20m deep 

Discussion: Pit fill cutting pre blocking occupation to north and cut down the side of the wall to the south. Respects the wall to the east and west truncated by Mellaart. excavation. The fill is very dense and very hard brick debris with fragmented fragments of wall/floor plaster (this would be from cutting through floors). Basal spread to south is of 30mm of unstructured plaster - not a lining but a primary deposition. Unknown function to the pit - its stratigraphic sequence as we know is below room infill (if we take cut (1095) as part of this) cuts the floors, there is no evidence left (after Mellaart.) that this cut was sealed by later post-blocking floors and therefore this cut may possibly be associated with either platforms or pillars in this space? 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry - partly shade - very bright hot 

Consistency: moderately strong 

Colour: 10YR 4/3-3/4 brown - dark yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: 10% charcoal (<3mm), 3% charcoal >3mm, 20% white flakes >2mm (possibly salt), 10% coprolite >5mm, 5% clay >3mm, wall plaster fragments >5mm, 10% decayed vegetation >2mm 

Post-depositional Features: nothing 

Basal Boundary: constructional: abrupt, prominent smooth surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1500 below: (Click to view the record) 1095 

Dry sieve volume: 60 

Total Deposit Volume: 60 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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