Unit 20912
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Clay accumulated deposits,Clay packing (infill)
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Description: More heights were not taken due to the impossibility of fitting the pole under the S wall undercut.
Discussion: Thick layer of clay packing in SW corner of excavated area, very different in both texture and composition from the building infill (U.20627). It consisted of an orangish yellow-brown packing with massive structure and very few inclusions. It seems that this material was pushed into the south wall undercut. An adult human pelvis and a number of other minor bones were found.
The base of the unit shows a compound layering structure: a succession of very thin microlayers (ca. 5 mm thickness), cross-bedded into one another, probably accumulated deposits.
By observing the western section of the area under excavation it seems evident to me that the infill of the south wall undercut has a different nature (very clayish, less inclusions) than the infill of the rest of the building. Maybe this wall undercut was filled in before the rest of the building?
Consistency: Very firm
Colour: Orangish yellow-brown
Texture: Clay
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Mortar fragments, animal and human bones
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: Change in accumulated deposits, gradual to diffuse
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 15
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
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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 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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