Unit 15357

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: arbitrary layer of top soil 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: EW 0.5m - NS 0.2m - 0.3m 

Discussion: This unit seems to belong to the top soil. It is very disturbed (burial F.3340, Byzantine pottery, animal burrows). I have the impression to find less obsidian than in the top soil layer above (U.15350) but animal bones seemed to be less fragmented. On the west part, there is a wall (F.3341) which is characterised by a black layer and another white layer (mortar). Other parts of brick (black layer) are present but ist difficult to identify clearly a new wall. There are a lot of big stones which underline a level very perturbated. 

Recognition: arbitrary 

Definition: arbitrary 

Execution: pick axe, hand pick, hoe, trowel 

Condition: under shelter 

Consistency: soft to firm 

Colour: greyish brown fill with lumps of yellow clay 

Texture: silt to clay 

Bedding: heterogeneous 

Inclusions: large stone, pottery, bones, little stones, few obsidian, shell, piece of ground stone 

Post-depositional Features: roots, animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: wavy, arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15379, F.2424, F.3341 below: (Click to view the record) 15350 

Dry sieve volume: 4344 

Total Deposit Volume: 4374 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 10

Number of Related Diary Entries: 12

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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