Unit 18539

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: brick collapse 

Data Category Information: In Situ: non in-situ; Location: building; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 1.50m - 0.90m 0.30m thick 

Discussion: Burnt brick collapse SE corner of trench extends beyond loe to east and south.
Narrow bricks in the walls of the building. Is this part of second story. A number of bricks were bonded together as part of a collapsed plastered wall mowever none of the survivinc walls are constructed of this type of brick. 

Recognition: bricks 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, hand mattock 

Condition: hot,dry,dusty 

Consistency: brick collapse / firm burnt bricks 

Colour: mid red brown 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: compaund 

Inclusions: plaster / brick cocanss occa: animal bone 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18542 below: (Click to view the record) 18534 

Dry sieve volume: 225 

Total Deposit Volume: 255 

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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