Unit 18696

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: surface layer 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

 

Dimensions: 2.39 m E-W x 1.33 m N-S 

 

Discussion: This layer, distinguished by its clear yellow-brown color, is a surface layer in the southeast portion of this space. It is molded to form the shape for hearth F.3525 and disappears in the southeast corner which has consistently had extremely friable moist silty clay loam, and is marked by truncated plaster extension (18665) and the overhang of wall F.4057. This surface layer (18696) extenuates toward the north and west of these constructions ending at the bench F. 3456. 

 

Recognition: color/texture change: underlying (18680), a mottled gray surface silty clay surface layer 

Definition: clear due to recognizable yellow color 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: very hot 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: yellow-brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: some charcoal, some ash, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: use of hearth (F. 3525) ladder scar, animal burrows, cracking 

Basal Boundary: clear, colour change to gray-brown clay loam 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18697, 19600 below: (Click to view the record) 18680 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 32 

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 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 97

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 365

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 2011 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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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