Unit 10980

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: make-up layer,midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Dimensions: 0.40 x 0.74 

Discussion: This is a layer situated in north-east corner of an extension. It would have been a midden like layer as well as a make-up one. The exploration of the unit was finished as the shape changed slightly and human bones clusters were exposed - excavated later as xfind (x12) within unit 10986 and as fragments of skeleton 11566. 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: a layer covering human bones clusters 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid grey with light grey inclusions 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, human bones, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary, flat, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 11751 below: (Click to view the record) 10947 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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