Unit 20517

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: packing 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: between walls; Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: E-W 0,86 x N-S 0,20 x 0,47 m 

Discussion: The unit was accumulated between blocking material (bricks-20214, mortar-20515) from north and plaster (U.20216) from south. It comprised of diverse components including fragments of bricks and mortar, as well as crushed/collapsed wall plaster and fragments of white floor. The accumulation of the deposit seems to be a result of an intentional act due to the context of niche (F.454). Its U-shaped cut (U.20218) within wall (F.445) did not allow for placing and filling up the whole niche using rectangular bricks. Therefore the free (concave) space, left between bricks and plastered cut, was stacked up by diverse and available nearby material. 

Recognition: colour, consistency - between plaster and blocking 

Definition: up to the wall and plaster 

Execution: trowel, hand-pick 

Condition: dry, very hot 

Consistency: varied: firm, friable 

Colour: multicoloured mid-orange, mid-grey, mid- white 

Texture: sandy- silt, silt, clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: broken and smashed bricks 40%, mortar 20%, plaster 10% 

Post-depositional Features: erosion 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20521 below: (Click to view the record) 20214, 20515 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 26 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

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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