Unit 1515

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: wall 

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

Dimensions: 4.3m NS 1.38m high 

Description: Wall running N-S bonded to [1516] wall runs West from the South corner of [1515]
Wall is constructed of courses of mudbrick 2 main types of mudbrick have been identifies, indicated on section 41.
Bricks Type (1) [1534] Type (3) [1536]
Mortar type (2) [1534]
Runs N/S 4.12 m from wall 1516 at south, to limits of excavation at north.
Stands 1.38 m high, 11 courses 1.00 m high at best preserved section although bricks stand higher at North.

wall steps down from the North to the South, which involves at least four descents. The predominance of brick type (1) [1534] at the upper courses survives. A change in function perhaps the lower coursing to a superstructure of a building, the lower courses being beneath ground. In cut [1043], suggesting foundation build only.
The wall is badly disturbed on its upper extant, by weathering, Mellaart, Animal burrows and roots. Bricks may have been made on site [see brick units] 

Discussion: While mortar may have been made from midden material excavated during the cutting of foundation trench [1043] the wall is later than [.. ..] to the West, as the western side of 1515 shows mortar overspill up against the former. The wall was constructed with courses of mud brick, which were likely laid and then the excavated construction cut levelled out before stepping up could continue, as several dump. layers within [1043] run under the brick coursing.
Courses of the brick slope off to the South, confirming the problem of subsidence when building over/in/on midden.
1515 abuts wall 1516 to south, but may be contemporary 

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Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1506 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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