Unit 17916

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: brick 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: brick; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.74m length x 0.38m width x 70mm thick 

Discussion: Heavily weathered, single crumbly brick with scorched dark brown underside, therefore a reused brick. Forms the core of bench F.1653. Cut to east by post retrieval pit cut (17924) and to west by later modifications such that by end of house sequence it has been shortened to look like a plinth. Seals fill of post retrieval pit (17924). . Appears that dry sieve volume of zero is valid 19/08/09 SAJ 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: mid orange brown 

Texture: crumbly and friable 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional small frags clay and basal phytolith adhesion 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: clear, constructional 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17923, 17925 below: (Click to view the record) 17907, 17927 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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