Unit 15335

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: arbitrary layer of room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS 2,0m - EW 2,0m - 0,15m deep 

Discussion: U.15335 is room fill unit under 18343. Was started by other team member. Continued excavating U.15335. Changed excavation technique to find unfired pottery clusters, phytoliths layers, clay lumps and room fill layer "in situ". Result was an even planum in the northern part of the room, a carefully excavated room fill layer (phytoliths, bones, sherds, unfired pottery clusters, building material) in the centre of U.15335 and an other artificial planum in the S part of the room (see photo).
Finishing 15335 by creating another artifical even planum with handpick and trowel. On southern buttresses (F.3301 and 3302) wall plaster appeared in lower part of the unit.

Coords for 15335.x1, x18, x19, x20 could not be taken with the total station, as wall was in the way - position describes above. 

Recognition: two buttresses and two walls 

Definition: clear 

Execution: handpick, trowel, brush 

Condition: under shelter in shade 

Consistency: looser and compact spots all over the space 

Colour: greyish looser fill with darker, orangeish and brownish inclusions 

Texture: mixed, from clayey to sandy 

Bedding: in most parts no layer visible, but some spots show phytolith layers 

Inclusions: layer of mudbricks, wall plaster, daub, bones, chacoal, pottery, unfired pottery, clay, obsidian, phytoliths, clay ball, stones 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, roots 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat/ even 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 18343 

Dry sieve volume: 306 

Total Deposit Volume: 306 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 21

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

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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