Unit 16998

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: Buttress (mudbrick slabs) 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS: 100 cm; EW: 110 cm; Depth: 20 cm 

Discussion: Unit 16998 is at the bottom of buttress f. 5057 and includes the construction material of the lower buttress and a small amount of fill, rising ~20 cm above the floor and extending only 5-10 cm into 16998 and under 16869. The most notable feature of 16998 is a ring of plaster defining a smaller, older phase of buttress construction. Around this ring of plaster, a couple of small, thin mudbricks can be discerned. These bricks may have ringed the entire buttress between the inside and (presumed, but missing) exterior buttress, however they are disturbed by rodent burrows. The outermost ring of fill around the inner buttress may have made up the bottom of the later buttress (5057) and have been plastered. The fill has many large artifacts and a general roomfill appearance. If it was plastered, it seems to be a less than ideal surface, possibly causing the plaster to fall off. The interior of 16998 appears to be the same construction slabs as above. 

Recognition: Buttress below u. 16869 of f. 5057 

Definition: Unclear on top, clear around the sides 

Execution: Pick (big and small) 

Condition: Warm, dry, shelter 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Dark gray brown 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Heterogeous mudbrick slabs 

Inclusions: Pottry, animal bone, charcoal, obsidian, stone 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows (minor) 

Basal Boundary: Flat, arbitrary just above floor 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16977 below: (Click to view the record) 16869 

Dry sieve volume: 108 

Total Deposit Volume: 138 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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