Unit 16450

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fill of pit cut 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: The dump layer right next to the collapsed rubble from the wall. The fill was so loose and easy to remove. It seems to be a big animal disturbance.

Revised interperation - Fill of pit cut [16471] 

Recognition: loose and dark fill 

Definition: dump of crushy bricks disturbed by animal burrows 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: warm and windy 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: reddish dark brown 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: layered with charcoal lenses 

Inclusions: animal bones (burnt, modern?), charcoal, obsidian and little fragments of shell 

Post-depositional Features: plant root activities and animal disturbances 

Basal Boundary: well defined with bright red brick crush layer underneath 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16455 below: (Click to view the record) 16430 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 105 

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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