Unit 16408

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: room fill / collapse 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Burnt mud brick tumble within space 336. This layer consists of large chunks of mud brick ans plaster within a finer brick crush / silt. Some of the bricks are near complete and many elemts have been retained for further study as they may include roofing elements and botanitcal information. Many of the bricks measure to .19m wide - where as all visible bricks still within their structural context measure 0.32 - 0.35m. It is at present unclear where there bricks were located.
This was prior to the removal of what turned out to be later phase walls. B77 walls are 0.19 m wide. 

Recognition: bound on the south and west by walls, colour and texture 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: moderate to friable 

Colour: mid reddish brown 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: frequent fragments of mud brick; very occasional animal bone, obsidian, shell; occasional stone and clay ball 

Post-depositional Features: root action and animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear in places onto soft brick crush in others difuse as the material below the brick crush is similar, irregular boundary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16420 below: (Click to view the record) 16417 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 1020 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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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