Unit 15389
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS 2.4m, EW 2m, depth 0.1-0.2m
Discussion: This unit was opened as another arbitrary layer of room fill beneath unit 15386 in Space 340, Building 98, but immediately turned out to be a cluster, mainly consisting of pot sherds and clay balls. In the southern end of the space, a mud brick had been thrown on top of several large sherds, crushing them. Plaster in large chunks were found next to the southern, western and nothern walls. Large streks of ash were uncovered at the northern and western wall, and especially in the south-east corner.
Recognition: texture, finds
Definition: arbitrarily, but most dense in the southern part
Execution: hand pick, trowel, brush
Condition: under shelter
Consistency: soft with patches of firm plaster
Colour: greyish brown with red, yellow-grey and black streaks
Texture: clayish silt with sandy patches
Bedding: layered, heterogeneous fill with many inclusions
Inclusions: pottery, clay balls, some ground stone, plaster, burnt plaster, animal bones, mud brick, obsidian, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 300
Total Deposit Volume: 331
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 38
Number of Related Diary Entries: 5
Settlement Phase:
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:: 53 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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