Unit 13575

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: collapsed wall,rubble 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2.70 x 0.90 x 0.12 m 

Discussion: Unit is located in nort-eastern to central part of the trench. It's irregular in shape. From the west it's truncated by cut of the Mellaart excavation from the 1960s. The unit is placed against the wall [13580] and it is certainly younger than this wall. Texture consistency and bedding make to interpret this unit as rubble or elements of collapsed wall. If this is a rubble the unit may have been accumlated over considerable span of time. It seems as if an initial portion of the rubble was succesively enlarged by its subsequent dumping episodes resulting in heterogenous composition of the unit and curent difficulties in distinguishong basal boundaries in N and S part (in N is gradual and distinct, thinner, in S arbitrary because of faint contrast between this and layer underneath. Other interpretation concerns that wall adjacent to this unit may have collapsed resulting in accumulation of broken bricks in this unit. Unit was recorded within midden. It may has been caused by both post-depositional processes (soilfluction) and processes of deposition. That may have occurred at the some time (deposition of midden layer and deposition of rubble). 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: rubble 

Execution: trowel, showel 

Condition: hot, windy, dry 

Consistency: compact to firm 

Colour: dark grey with fragments of light brown and mid brown bricks 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: none 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, bricks, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: in N part gradual, in S part arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13522 below: (Click to view the record) 13522 

Dry sieve volume: 120 

Total Deposit Volume: 142 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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