Unit 16403

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Discussion: This layer was probably formed gradually , accumulating over a period of a time, and a mix of sandy silt and burnt mud brick fragments, and lumps. There are also lumps of charcoal. The bones were largely concentrated at the south side of the unit. There were burnt bricks of red colour and with some greenish yellow.
Excavated origibally in quadrants, so same as 16402 and 16405. 

 

Recognition: hard burnt mud brick rubble in several colours 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: warm windy 

Consistency: loose to firm 

Colour: greenish yellow, red, orangish brown, lack charcoal 

Texture: sandy silt with large deposits of burnt brick 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: bone, clay ball fragment 

Post-depositional Features: plant roots 

Basal Boundary: abrupt, distinct, irregular, broken, rough, scorched 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16406 below: (Click to view the record) 16400 equal to: (Click to view the record) 16402, 16405 

 

Dry sieve volume: 45 

Total Deposit Volume: 120 

Number of Samples 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 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 77

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 336

Features:: none

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 13

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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