Unit 17670

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Dimensions: 1.90x 0.80 x 0.14 

Discussion: This is a midden layer situated underneath the wall in N-S alingment- u. 17661. It was composed of thin layers and lenses of ash and clay. Above its southern part a row of bricks was situated, recoded as . 17685.No bricks were recorded in its northern part. This unit compresed a part of larger midden located to the north (u. 17636). Basal boundary of this unit was sloping N and was defined arbitrarly. A cluster of animal bones (u. 17685) was recorded within this unit, in its N part. 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: miden against the wall 1642 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, warm 

Consistency: soft and loose 

Colour: grey, black, light brown, dark brown 

Texture: ash, sand, silt, clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian, fragments of bricks, ash 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sloping south 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17671 below: (Click to view the record) 17661 equal to: (Click to view the record) 17636 

Dry sieve volume: 229 

Total Deposit Volume: 245 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 21

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

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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