Unit 17383

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: leveling layer 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: N-S 5m, E-W 3m 

Discussion: Layer with crushed mudbrick oerlaying burnt fill of B.79. Possibly leveling deposit (post-fire). Mixed with lots of unburnt animal bone. Very occasion pieces of burnt brick and animal bone in this unit. Presumably, they are from the lower heavily burnt room fill. Seven small stones with holes fhrough then them rovered from this deposit. 

Recognition: color, firmer than burnt room fill 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot and dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid grey brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occa: charcoal, shell, stone, worked stone, pot, clayballs, obsidian; frequent pieces of crushed mudbrick, animal bone, 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17378 below: (Click to view the record) 17377 

Dry sieve volume: 1515 

Total Deposit Volume: 1541 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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