Unit 20942

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: rubble of fallen wall F.7125 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: The rubble of fallen wall composed of mid-grey bricks and mid-orange mortar was recorded in situ within Southern part of the Sp.511. Taking into consideration the nature of the rubble, that allowed to identify at least 8 courses of bricks and mortar, it is highly possible that the location where unit was uncovered remains exactly the spot where it collapsed in the past and afterward was wrapped by midden deposits (U:20938, 19564). From stratigraphical point of view the unit together with northern rubble (U.20943) represent the latest phase that could be related with the space 511, and they both are reminiscent of a disintegration episode that occurred probably after sealing the whole structure by dumping material. The latter is confirmed by the fact that the described rubble laid directly on the earlier midden (U. 20965). Noteworthy is also that the most southern part of the rubble had direct correspondence with the slumping northward wall F.7125 (the southern wall of the Sp.511). For this reason the unit appears to be the upper part of the mentioned construction that felled at some point covering interior. There were some particularities involved with the unusual mid-grey bricks that need to be presented here. It seems that mentioned component of the rubble as well as the wall were made of back swamped (silty-)clay (Burcu personal information) tempered by organic material like straw or grass. A number of phytolits within the bricks provides evidence for the above assumption. 

Consistency: friable, firm 

Colour: BRICKS: mid-grey, MORTAR: mid-orange 

Texture: silty-clay, sandy-silt 

Bedding: layered, division between bricks and mortar 

Inclusions: clay, stones, phytolits 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: very sharp, surface of midden (U.20965). 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20965 below: (Click to view the record) 20938, 19564 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 1474 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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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