Unit 1692

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: demolition collapse 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)

Dimensions: 4.55 M EW x 3.30 m NS 

Discussion: A layer of building rubble, bricks, mortar , stone, wall plaster. The building material appears to have tipped in from the North. The mortar is found in smaller lumps and less frequently towards the south. A large concentration of mortar was found in the north west corner of the area where a square patch of slightly creamy-coloured mortar was found. The mortar appears to be still attached or directly-fallen off the North wall in places and I (MLA) felt that at least part of this layer is comprised of collapse from the North wall. However, that layer also contains bricks of a different composition to make visible in the North wall [64]. The upper part of the wall could have been built of this different type of bricks, or the bricks could haven been from the South wall no longer surviving at this height, or the west wall (not located yet) or redeposited from elsewhere. Dry Sieve Information: Figure problematical 

Execution: mattock 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 2.5Y 8/1 white - 2.5Y 6/6 olive yellow 

Texture: clayey sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: <2% bone, clay ball, charcoal, plaster, mudbrick (some large frags), stone 

Post-depositional Features: cut on south by wall [63] 

Basal Boundary: indistinct, dumped, wavy? 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1816, 1813 below: (Click to view the record) 1620 

Dry sieve volume: 1120 

Total Deposit Volume: 1151 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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