Unit 17263
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 260 (E-W), 280 (N-S), height = 10cm
Discussion: U.17263 is really heterogenous with a lot of collapsed material (mudbrick, plaster etc.) and pathes of different colours. Some of them were very dark and loose and could be organic remains like wood. We are still in the room fill.
The elevations of x16 are not right.
Recognition: colour and texture
Definition: clear in the north-western corner and in the eastern part unclear in southern part (F.5061)
Execution: smallick, trowel, brush
Condition: warm, under shelter
Consistency: soft fill with lots of plaster and mudbrick fragments
Colour: greyish -bron fill with greyish-yellow plaster and black mudbrik
Texture: silty with inclusions of clay
Bedding: heterogenous, lumps of clay (greyish-yellow)
Inclusions: mudbricks (burnt), plaster, charcoil, pigments, pot stand, one usual size, one about 4cm high), pieces of groundstones (ca 5cm).
Post-depositional Features: animal burrow and roots
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 248
Total Deposit Volume: 280
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 17
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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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