Unit 15895

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)

Dimensions: 1.20 x 0.50 x 0.83 

Discussion: This is a midden located in westernmost part of the trench. Its western part was truncated during excavation in the 1960s. It was bordered from the W by remains of mudbrick wall 17607. It is a part of a larger midden deposit consisting also of units 17603,17609, 15887 and 17617. It was distinguished from them by slight diferences in consistency and colour.
The midden was placed directly on a floor 17618.Remains of an oven were also identified underneath S part of u. 15895.
This layer was dark and consisted of numerous organic inclusions. 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: midden in W part of the trench 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: dark brown, gray, blackish 

Texture: silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, charcoal, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: sharp, smooth, prominent 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17618 below: (Click to view the record) 15886 equal to: (Click to view the record) 15887, 17603, 17617 

Total Deposit Volume: 497 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 7

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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