Unit 18370

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: 2012: At the end of the 2012 season, we decided to make a sondage in the central area of the room, to try and find the floor before the end of the season. It's delimited byt the buttresses (F.3365, F.3353, F.3366, F.5062), We are still in the room fill, with a lot of collapsed material, and the chinks [??] are filled by a loose brown sediment. The sondage was started with a big pick, until we found a collapsed wall in the center of the area (18372). Then we decided to expose the collapse around it. We saw wavy and irregular surface, with a lot of different sized mud bricks, mortar plaster and lumps of an unknown clayey material (s4). In the northwestern corner, a piece of red coloured burnt plaster was found. Its shape is a strange as the shape of the big piece of the same material found in the upper layer (18356, s4, same area). For the end of the excavaton we decided to leave the bench of collapsed material around 18372 to protect until the next season. To be continued….

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2014: A sample for radiocarbon dating was chosen from the faunal collection. As we did not know the last sample number from the unit, we took s10 to be safe.(NB s9, s8 etc do not exist) 

 

Consistency: heterogeneous, loose in SW, compac in SE 

Colour: greyish-brown, orange clay, black mud bricks, beige plaster 

Texture: sandy silt with pockets of hard clay in the North 

Bedding: massive, heterogenous 

Inclusions: mud bricks, plaster, mortar, clay, few pottery, bone, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: rodent burrows 

Basal Boundary: wavy, arbitrary (end of the season) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 18356 

 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 17

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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Buildings: (Click to view the record) 105

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 342

Features:: none

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2012 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 8

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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