Unit 16880
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: EW 1,6m - NS 2,2m - up to 50cm thick
Discussion: Room fill of space 340, which is defined by walls F.2428 and 2413 and buttresses F.5053/5054 and 5052. Only when excavating, the unit it became clear that 5053/5054 and 5052 are no walls, but buttresses, therefore the space is actually not closed.
Parts of the roomfill cut by pit 16823 and grave cut 16801. Little sondage opened in the quarter in the SW corner. Not finished this season, therefore finished arbitrary.
The fill is mostly loose, brown soil (moist) with hard patches. Heavily mixed with pieces of plaster, burnt mudbrick, charcoal, lime, clay, mortar. Heavily truncated by animal burrows, also the walls.
Recognition: walls
Definition: walls F.2428, 2413, buttresses F.5052, 5053/5054
Execution: large pick, handpick, trowel
Condition: hot and dry
Consistency: heterogeneous, mostly loose and moist with harder spots
Colour: heterogeneous, mostly dark brown with limy spots = yellowish white, clayey spots = dark brown; burnt mudbrick = red and black, charcoal = black, lumps of plaster = pale yellow
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: frequently pottery, animal bones, charcoal / occasionally lime, clay, burnt mudbrick, plaster, human bone, obsidian, shell
Post-depositional Features: roots and lots of animal holes
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 2040
Total Deposit Volume: 2070
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 10
Number of Related Diary Entries: 14
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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:: 1 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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