Unit 11558

Category: layer    dug in 2005

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: pit's infill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 0.72 x 0.60 x 0,43 

Discussion: This is western part of large irregular pit identified in a narrow trench dug out for the tent foundation in the 2004 excavation season. Remaining western edge of the pit was truncated by Mellaart`s trench in the 1960s.
Pottery was found almost exclusively at the bottom of the pit. 

Recognition: shape, consistency 

Definition: fragment of pit's infill 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot, windy 

Consistency: friable/ firm 

Colour: light/dark grey, mid brown 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, animal bones, ashes 

Post-depositional Features: burrowing rodents 

Basal Boundary: slightly irregular, on the Neolithic floor 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 11559 below: (Click to view the record) 11546 equal to: (Click to view the record) 11517 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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