Unit 18145
Category: Layer dug in 2009
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: fill of pit
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit
Dimensions: 1.2m (N-S) x 1.1m (E-W)
Discussion: Fill of pit (18150) lots of dumped building material; brick and plaster. Some of the building material is burnt. Plaster chunks with up to 70 sequences suggesting a building nearby that was occupied for a very long time. Chunks of plaster with red paint; some of which is stripes. Horn found in the fill suggesting a possible buccrania.
Recognition: colour, texture
Definition: red fill of mudbrick
Execution: mattock
Condition: dry, cool
Consistency: firm
Colour: light brownish-red, mid-grey
Texture: more than 60% burnt brick is clayey sand grey (mortar) silty sand
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: moderate charcoal flecks, mud ash lenses
Post-depositional Features: heavily truncated on all sides by later pitting
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 500
Total Deposit Volume: 518
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
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
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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 2009 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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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