Unit 20696

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Infill of post retrieval pit 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Discussion: Infill of post retrieval cut U. 20697. The top of the unit was similar in texture and composition to the building infill, U. 20627. Disaggregate ashes (secondary deposited) were present at the top of the unit, especially towards the south wall.
A thick patch (ca. 3cm depth) of burnt natural sediment was found close to the southern wall.
Fragments of burnt clay (up to 10cm diameter) were found towards the base of the pit.
Otherwise this infill contained very few inclusions: a number of bones, very few obsidian flakes and two large rocks. The unit has been very disturbed by animal burrowing.
The western limit of the infill/cut was very difficult to determine due to the similarities between U.20696 and the building infill, and the steep inclination of the deposits.
There seems to be more than one infill episode in this unit: the ashy layers found towards the top of tue sequence and pushed against the south wall might have served to level the floor after the earlier infill (loose sediment) sinked and became more compact after trampling. We have come to hypothesize that this Space was occupied after being partly infilled, and that the abandonment of this building took place in several stages. 

 

Consistency: Soft to firm (heterogeneous matrix) 

Colour: Brown with black speckles (ashes and charcoal) 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive with ashy/disaggregated patches of sediment 

Inclusions: Oven and hearth fragments, burnt natural sediment, ashes, rocks 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation (animal burrowing) 

Basal Boundary: Change in accumulated deposits, abrupt to gradual 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20697 below: (Click to view the record) 20627 

 

Dry sieve volume: 141 

Total Deposit Volume: 160 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7113 (post pit)

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 2013 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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