Unit 19245

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Robber fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Dimensions: length 0.94 / 0.88 - width / 0.38 - height 

Discussion: Room fill truncated byMellaart left in SE corner of room as he followed wall and left this area in situ. Some mudbrick and plaster collapse by wall This is now apparently the fill in a cut in the corner of the room => Possibly a post retrieval pit. Contains a lot of bone including human. Skeleton 18635 is a group of articulated human bone with the fill around 18634 arbitary as the fill around the bones excavated when the group was thought to be part of a burial. It now seems that material dumped in to the cut contained bits of human bone, some articulated, others not. 

Recognition: within corner of room, left by Mellart 

Definition: clear 

Execution: mini mattock, trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: moderate 

Colour: mottled - mid - orangey - grey 

Texture: silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: fragment charcoal , mod animal bone including dog & fish , v. occasional pot, occ obsidian & auroch ankle articulated so can be used for dating 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by Mellaart on north side, animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18636 below: (Click to view the record) 19225 equal to:18635/18634

Total Deposit Volume: 31 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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