Unit 15261

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: infill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Discussion: This is an infill placed underneath another infill (15244) and on top of the floor (15809) of Building 74 in its W part recorded as space 326.
It was limited by walls recorded as units: 15225 (N), 13578 (S), 15298 (E), 13579 (W).
It was relatively homogenous and consisted of dark brown and greyish soil mixed up with fragments of mudbricks and other constructional elements (plaster pieces of earlier floor). Several pieces of crashed floor present in upper layers (15224, 15206, 15207) were also noticed in this infill.
Five cattle mandibles, two scapulas, one skull, one rib and two horn cores were recorded within this unit, although they appear to have been dalibarately placed on top of the floor (15809). They are interpreted as an abandonment deposit.
Due to the conservation and following lifting up of those bones the exploration of the infill was slowen down. Unfortunately, the bones were lifted up with huge fragments of the floor (15809) unabling the full reconstruction of the context of this unusual deposit.
Nevertheless, it seems that at least some of the bones (the rib and one of the horn cores) were placed in shallow holes in the floor.
In the E-central part of the infill a cluster of stones was found in situ, also placed on the floor. It was recorded as a separate unit (15810). 

Recognition: colour, consistency, stratigraphic position 

Definition: infill layer in Building 74 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, warm, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid.dark brown, greyish, orangish 

Texture: silty/sandy clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, obsidian, shell, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: very sharp, prominent, smooth, flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15809 below: (Click to view the record) 15224 

Dry sieve volume: 898 

Total Deposit Volume: 923 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 27

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:

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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