Unit 18577

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Room collapse 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2.70m x 0.70m x 0.10m 

Discussion: Highly burnt, friable floor/ ceiling collapse. Largely laminated clay and plaster surfaces visable. Simular appearance and colour to floors (18542) 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel/ hand mattock 

Condition: Dusty 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: pale yellow green 

Texture: burnt and friable mudbrick and surfaces 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: moulded plaster/ brick and clay with wood impressions and occational obsidian, animal bones, stones 

Post-depositional Features: highly burnt 

Basal Boundary: poorly defined- colour defining deposit is due to heat of fire. Underlying deposit same composition but less highly fired 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18579 below: (Click to view the record) 18545 

Dry sieve volume: 210 

Total Deposit Volume: 234 

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:

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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