Unit 18341
Category: Layer dug in 2009
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill,surface
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: EW 2,2 - NS 2,5 - depth up to 0,2m
Discussion: JMR 7.4. 2010: 18341 is a surface and the room fill underneath it. Under 18341 and bottom limit of the unit is 18346, another surface. Above 18341 there was room fill 18328.
SRW 19.8. 2009: Under 18341 we reached a slightly harder surface (Unit 18346). As the interface between 18328 and 18341 looked quite similar, we conclude that 18341 was also a surface. Skeleton 18333 was apparently placed on the surface at the interface between 18328 - 18341, as were x-finds recorded in 18328.
Several x-finds were found at what turned out to be the interface between 18341 and 18346 - so we believe they were sitting upon a surface that is 18346 - so they were included in the plan of 18346 but recorded as x-finds within 18341.
For x-finds of significant size believed to be upon the surface of 18346, top and bottom coordinates were taken. Coordinates recorded in the x-finds table are bottom coordinates, top coordinates are as follows:
x23 = 690,12 / 971,84 / 1005,35
x24 = 690,28 / 970,52 / 1005,34
x27 = 690,91 / 971,23 / 1005,37
x28 = 690,91 / 971,71 / 1005,40
x29 = 690,77 / 971,95 / 1005,35
x35 = 691,58 / 970,60 / 1005,32 (both coordinates are top height as the artefact remains unexcavated until the end of the season)
x36 = 692,11 / 972,50 / 1005,34
x37 = 691,04 / 970,90 / 1005,33
x38 = 690,33 / 971,53 / 1005,33
The relationship between 18341 and the two buttresses with which ist interface has been exposed is not entirely clear; it is possible that 18341 actually extends underneath the buttresses - which would suggest that the buttresses are from a phase later than both the "bench" F.3303, which 18341 definitely does not extend under, and unit 18341- but it now appears that 18341 does not extend under the buttresses, and that the buttresses were themselves built in two phases (with the lower, earlier phase harder to distinguish from 18341). This should be clarified through further excavation (following the buttresses and bench downwards) next season.
S2 initially looked like a floor (yellow silty friable material) but did not continue under the brown matrix; neither does the ashy spot - the both overlie more fill material. Under S2, a cluster of x-finds (horn core with skull fragments, clay ball etc.) appeared. [JMR 7.4. 2010: these are x26 and …?? ]
Recognition: more colourful mixed soil under 18328
Definition: fuzzy towards 18328, clear at 18310, buttresses and walls
Execution: small pick, trowel
Condition: warm, dry, under shade from tent
Consistency: heterogeneous
Colour: brown with spots of yellow, white and black
Texture: silt, loam
Bedding: loose under a compact surface
Inclusions: pot sherds, bone, obsidian, lot of charcoal, burnt bone, plaster, phytolith layers
Post-depositional Features: a few mole holes
Basal Boundary: flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 491
Total Deposit Volume: 522
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 38
Number of Related Diary Entries: 9
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:: 73 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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