Unit 15159
Category: Layer dug in 2010
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 4x2.80mx.35m thickness
Discussion: This unit presents a complex combination of events. The relations and connections amongst each other are however still unclear. The excavation of the NW corner yielded a plaster floor (U. 15170) surrounded by what could be three walls/buttresses (F. 3320, 3321, 3322), possibly contemporaneous in date, since they do not seem to cut into each other in any way, as opposed to the wall running along the SE area of the unit (U. 15342). This wall is marked out by a plaster line which does not find continuation in the plaster lines making up F.3321. The excavation of the NE corner yielded another plaster floor on the same level as the one in the NW (U.15170). Their similarity in colour and same stratigraphic level could suggest that both may have been part of the same floor, although they got truncated at some point by F. 3322, which was interpreted as a bin/installation of some sort. Although a thick layer of plaster was found in the interior of this feature, the stratigraphic section showed no continuation between this and the adjoining floors. Approximately 10cm below the floor in the NE corner, a new more intact plaster floor was found, which is likely to be related to the wall under U. 15342 (although this relationship still needs to be confirmed) and seems to continue below the floor on U. 15170, which also confirms its older age.
Recognition: colour-existence of plaster lines
Definition: clear in the W, N (up to baulk) and S, unclear (arbitrary) to the E.
Execution: small pick, shovel, trowel, large pick
Condition: under shelter, warm
Consistency: compact/firm-fill is rather compact too.
Colour: dark greyish brown with lumps of light yellow clay and white plaster
Texture: sandy silt, lumps of clay/mudbrick
Bedding: heterogeneous fill contains lumps of clay, mudbrick and plaster
Inclusions: mudbrick, clay, potsherds, animal bone, little stones
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: fill
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 1620
Total Deposit Volume: 1981
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 19
Number of Related Diary Entries: 14
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2010 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 3 Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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