Unit 11642

Category: layer    dug in 2005

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: rubbly infill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: re-used superstructure; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: layer is very unequally deposited - revealing how the platform was constructed - earth was piled against brick wall, then a retaining wall built, and earth piled behind to make it level. Layer was very hard and compact, making it difficult to recover some of the bones in one piece. 116743 sectioned off as a separate cluster, in hindsight this was unnecessary, deposit is one homogeneous deposit, layers blurred into room fill towards platform edge. Layer also continued in a thin layer onto F.1332. This was discovered durnig excavation. Blended into room infill at an indistinct boundary - may have been material from the same source used in both places

total volume worked out by dimensions 

Recognition: by inclusions 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: hard, compact 

Colour: dull greyish orange 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: lots of burnt clay lumps, pot, bone, quern stone, beads, horn core, shell, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: rabbit burrowing in places 

Basal Boundary: clear, distinct, regular - blended into room in-fill in a blurred indistinct manner 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 11641 below: (Click to view the record) 11634 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 1500 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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