Unit 15826

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: mortar 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: mortar; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This is the mortar associated with mudbricks recorded as unit 15825. It was dark brown/greyish and of rather unchanging thickness (4-5 cm). Similarly as mortar u. 13034 of wall u. 12229 it was set to attach the mudbricks of u. 15825 to the earlier wall recorded as u. 11583 located E of this unit. 

Recognition: stratigraphic position, colour, consistency 

Definition: mortar of wall 15825 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: warm, windy, dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: grey, dark brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian, shell 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: prominent, flat, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15825 

Dry sieve volume: 59 

Total Deposit Volume: 84 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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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