Unit 15066

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: arbitrary eroded layer,eroded midden (15400) 

Data Category Information: Description: void (unused unit no)

Description: Trench 10 

Discussion: Really crappy, indistinct material. It's right on the surface, thus it is heavily disturbed by bioturbation, suslecs, and erosion. It is also very dried out. It was a hard layer to follow, and may have been part of the midden layer (15400) below, but it is hard to tell. It had a lot of finds in it, which implies that it may have indeed been part of the midden, including a nice animal figurine and a cluster of three mini-clayballs the the south eastern corner. There were two pieces of modern looking pottery that were obviously not neolithic pottery, and they were not near each other and may have been brought there through one of the many suslec holes disturbing the layer, or may have been in the fill (15412) of the Byzantine grave cut that was noticed only when the wooden coffin (15420) was exposed. 

Recognition: layer of eroded material 

Definition: poor 

Execution: trowel, hoe, mattock 

Condition: hot and very windy 

Consistency: loose and friable 

Colour: ashy grey 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: very frequent animal bone; frequent obsidian, stone, clayball bits, pottery, burtn stone/mudbrick bits; very occassional shell, modern pottery 

Post-depositional Features: plant action, animal burrows, erosion 

Basal Boundary: onto a more distinct midden layer 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15412 below:+equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 675 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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