Unit 16455

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fill of later pit 

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

Discussion: Layer of collapse / back fill at the possible entrance on through space between spaces 336 and 337. The upper layer was comacted and formed a crust. The material inside qas soft mainly die to animal burrows.

*Fill of pit cut [16471] - a late pit truncating dividing wall. 

Recognition: colour and texture 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, windy and dry 

Consistency: firm crust on top to soft core 

Colour: mid reddish brown 

Texture: clay silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional crushed animal bone; occasional obsidian flakes 

Post-depositional Features: major animal burrowing - most of the feature 

Basal Boundary: clear, flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16470 below: (Click to view the record) 16450 

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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