Unit 15174

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: roomfill 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls

Dimensions: 140cm EW x 210cm NS x 15cm 

Discussion: SCS 2010: After the excavation of 15172, this unit describes the following layer. It was not excavated, merely the top drawn and a photo taken.

RHB 31.7.2011: Arbitrary layer of room fill in Space 345. The fill, rather than in clear layers is an uneven mix of silty brown/grey soil and lumps of both pure white and orangey creamy clay which may have been for pottery production and a coarser dark brown clay with many inclusions particularly in the southwest of the unit. The fill had many concentrations of pottery including some unfired pottery pointing to evidence of pottery production, a polished stone find and the lumps of high quality clay support this interpretation. Each concentration of pottery appears to be placed on the same level and frequency of pottery bases facing down on the same level suggests they were deliberately placed in the fill at the same time perhaps on a compacted layer of the fill during the process of filling the space. The coarser clay and collapsed plaster, some of which was painted, indicate the building collapse and indeed the walls of this space are very unevenly plastered. Several ground stone objects including a possible mortar (x11) and pestle (x8) were found along with a bone needle (x3), stone weight (x9) and a shaped stone object like a stamp as example of unusual finds which are odd to have been thrown away in the room fill along with the pottery. Several very small green stones were also samples which could be linked to pottery production. The unit was closed at an arbitrary level. 

Recognition: defined by 3 walls and 1 buttress and trench border (in south); depth arbitrary 

Definition: clearly defined by walls and southern section 

Execution: handpick, trowel, brush 

Condition: under shelter, hot 

Consistency: compact fill with firm lumps of clay particularly in the south 

Colour: greyish brown fill with lumps of yellow and white clay 

Texture: mainly silt with lumps of clay 

Bedding: heterogenous mix of clay and silt but not in defined layers across the unit 

Inclusions: pottery, obisidian, animal bones, ground stone, polished stone, lumps pf clay, unfired pottery, collapsed plaster, flint, small green stone, clay ball fragment, bone needle 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary bottom boundary to unit 16949 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16946 below: (Click to view the record) 15172 

Dry sieve volume: 395 

Total Deposit Volume: 425 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 12

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 24

Number of Related Diary Entries: 18

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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