Unit 18545

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: burnt room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 5.10m x 3.50m 0.30m (thick) 

Discussion: layer of mixed highly burnt building collapse/ demolition debris. Burnt, friable brick collapse with moulded plaster pieces and oddly shaped baked clay collapse appears to mainly be material from roof/ top story of building 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: clear 

Execution: hand mattock/ trowel 

Condition: dusty and cool 

Consistency: loose/ friable 

Colour: red -> pale grey green 

Texture: burnt mud brick crush 

Bedding: composite 

Inclusions: slag like vitrified material, occational animal bone, stones (unworked), obsidian, ground stone, shell, mini clay ball, large grindstone x2 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18577 below: (Click to view the record) 18562 

Dry sieve volume: 2625 

Total Deposit Volume: 2654 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of X-Finds 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:

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

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