Unit 20414

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Foundation Infill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut

Dimensions: 0.16m N-S X 1.30 m E-W X 0,15m thick 

Discussion: It is of medium probability that this is a foundation infill. It is a continuation of the younger wall, F. 3624. It is the lower part of the foundation infill, and is located below unit 20440, which is the upper part of the infill. It consists of yellowish, greyish silty clay. There were medium sized red clay oven pieces as well as medium sized brownish burnt clay. This unit seemed to sit on top of another wall, under a few centimeters of midden fill. 

Recognition: Different color and consistency than area around 

Definition: Up to wall in South, Clear at North 

Execution: Trowel, Mattock 

Condition: Dry, hot 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Mixed grey and yellow 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal, small brown, orange clay pieces, salt crystalization, bone, medium sized red clay oven pieces, medium sized brownish burnt clay 

Post-depositional Features: Nothing 

Basal Boundary: Foundation clear, wavy, anthropogenic, midden 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20607 below: (Click to view the record) 20440 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 22 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

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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