Unit 18318
Category: Layer dug in 2009
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: Location: between walls
Dimensions: N-S 1.9m, E-W 1,8m, thickness 0.1-0,15m
Discussion: Second spit if room fill in Sp 310. Looks very lumpy by now, also visible on the photos. It is impossible to create and even surface with the trowel as the lumps are differently hard. Fill still disturbed by a lot of animal burrows which were emptied seperately as 18304. There are frequent lumps of pale yellow clay, orange clay, grey clay, pieces of lime and charcoal, some spots of red pigment and two pieces of red painted plaster. The soil of the last centimeters towards the bottom, however, was finer, softer and contained fewer clay lumps - an even surface could be created with the trowel.
Fill contains four clusters of pot sherds, animal bones and small finds (18319, 18320, 18321, 18323). In between 18320 and 18321 next to the Western wall 5058 fragments of unfired pottery were found. 18323 also contained unfired pottery.
Recognition: limited by walls and profile
Definition: clear
Execution: small pick, trowel, brush
Condition: hot
Consistency: loose to very loose at the bottow
Colour: greyish brown, orange and yellow clay, white lime/ chalk, black charcoal
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: heterogeneous, more homogeneous towards the bottom
Inclusions: frequent spots and pieces of charcoal and lime , a lot of clay lumps, a lot of pottery and animal bones; some stones, obsidian; few shell and phytoliths; two pieces of red plaster
Post-depositional Features: root action
Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 549
Total Deposit Volume: 579
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 15
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 8
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:: 86 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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