Unit 15820

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This is an ashy midden in the W part of the excavated area. Its consistency was loose and it contained a huge amount of material including animal bones and big fr. of pottery. This is a typically layered midden made of numerous parallel layers made of burnt soli, charcoal and ash.
I its eastern part, against wall 15825 the midden was mixed up with rubble of bricks. The exploration was finished arbitrarly as the unit apparently stretches to the South and SW and the excavation season 2007 is coming to the end. 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: ashy midden layer in W part of the trench 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: black 

Texture: ash 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, obsidian, charcoal, shell 

Post-depositional Features: rodents 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 15325, 12229 

Dry sieve volume: 307 

Total Deposit Volume: 328 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 30

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 13

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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