Unit 20938

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Discussion: The midden was excavated in 2013 as an arbitrary layer that was reminiscent of similar deposits excavated in 2012 (19564, 20487, 20472). It was placed along the Southern part of the trench directly under the southern walls of sp. 489 (F. 3623, 3624). It was well noticeable at the beginning of the 2013 season that the midden was accumulated earlier than mentioned walls raised, and the dump deposit is restricted by wall F.2008 (-the northern wall of Sp.93, B52). The unit contained an abundance of organic inclusions, including areas with charcoal, and artefacts, especially animal bones, obsidian and clay ball fragments. Significant is a lack of pottery in the excavated deposit! Due to the accumulation process and dumping different kind of material during a time period, there were a number of layers evidenced. In the upper part of the unit there were e.g. several ashy sequences. And within the lower section the deposit was more friable and composed of different color clay lumps. The basal boundary of the midden was very sharp because the described above material covered completely rubble of in situ fallen wall (U.20942). 

Consistency: loose and soft in upper part and friable in lower 

Colour: multicoloured:mid/dark-grey, light-black, orange 

Texture: silty-sand, sand, ash 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: ash, clay building material, charcoal, clay 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by excavator in 2012, and builders of sp.489 

Basal Boundary: sharp, fallen wall (U.20942) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20942 below: (Click to view the record) 20415, 19441, 20919, 20675, 20416 equal to: (Click to view the record) 19564, 20487, 20472 

Dry sieve volume: 615 

Total Deposit Volume: 643 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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