Unit 17801

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: mortar 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This is a layer of mortar of wall 17800. It was made of gray silty clay with inclusions of charcoal. It was 4 cm thick. Within this unit an x- find was recorded- a worked shell with a hole. 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: mortar of bricks 17800 

Execution: mattock, trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: gray 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: phytoliths, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17805 below: (Click to view the record) 17800 

Dry sieve volume: 292.75 

Total Deposit Volume: 313 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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