Unit 15825

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: mudbrick wall 

Data Category Information: Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2,76 x 0,3 x 0,3 

Discussion: This is a mudbrick wall recorded in Mellaart's plan from the 1960s excavations and dated to Level . It is arguably the eastern wall of his building 4. Mortar of his wall was recorded as unit 15286. All mudbricks were poorly made and were orangish in colour. They also comprosed quite a significant number of inclusions. There were 4 courses of bricks measuring as follows:
upper coourse: 02,/0,36/0,06m; 0,47/0,23/0,06m
2nd course:0,30/0,20/0,09; 0,40/0,26/0,09; 0,26/0,34/0,07; 0,84/0,28/0,08; 0,68/0,26/0,08
3rd course: 0,39/0,40/0,09; 0,12/0,44/0,09; 0,72/0,35/0,08-0,10; 0,44/0,28/0,08; 0,57/0,30/0,08; 0,70/0,28/0,09
bottom course: 0,40/0,34/0,09; 0,37/0,25/0,09
The bottom course was different in colour and consistency than the upper ones and the inclusions were more numerous there. Only two bricks were identifiable in this course- located in saouthernmost part of the wall. They were overlaying another mudbrick which seems to have continuation underneath wall 15836 and might belong to another, earlie,r wall. 

Recognition: shape, consistency, colour 

Definition: mudbrick wall S of wall 12229 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, warm, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: orange, greyish 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: flat, smooth,k distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15820 below: (Click to view the record) 15826 

Dry sieve volume: 369 

Total Deposit Volume: 394 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

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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