Unit 15361
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: EW 2.3m - NS 0.85m -0.1m
Discussion: This is a layer of room fill in the northern part of Space 450. It is composed of silty soil and a hard layer of building material (white and red plaster chunks). At first this suggested that there might be a floor or a surface, but ist uneven nature and the presence of inclusions indicates it might be just a compacted layer of room fill. This unit seems to have close relations with the depositional events in Space 449 and Space 340. The fill looks similar, some vessels fit together, and Space 340 has ashy layers too - as the bottom of U.15361, Sp. 450. However, the connections are not clear yet, because the spaces next door have nt been excavated to the same level.
Recognition: colour
Definition: clear in depth down to ashy layer
Execution: hand pick, trowel, spatula, brush
Condition: under shelter
Consistency: soft with firm lumps of clay and plaster debris
Colour: brown fill with white red plaster lumps
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: layered (hard plaster lumps and soil)
Inclusions: pottery, bones, lumps of clay
Post-depositional Features: animal disturbances
Basal Boundary: fairly even, sloping towards west
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 265
Total Deposit Volume: 296
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 5
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 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 36 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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