Unit 20965
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps); Basal Spit: basal deposit
Discussion: The midden was uncovered under the rubbles of a fallen wall (U.20942, 20943) and it covered the whole interior of Sp. 511, restricted by the walls F.7125 (in the South), F.7126 (in the East), F.3679 (in the North). The Western limit of the midden was set arbitrary along the Grid line: E-1044. The latter simultaneously comprises of the section line through the trench set in 2012. The most significant particularity involved with the deposit (U.20965) was its surface with the clearly observable heaped S-E part of the unit, that corresponded with the nearby corner of Sp.511. Undoubtedly, the form of the whole deposit, and especially the heap give an insight into the nature of accumulation that occurred in the past.
The deposit consisted of a wide range of identifiable components and their locality i.e. Burned clay building material recognizable as fragments of oven dome structure, together with remains of plaster were mostly scoped in the northern part of the unit, along the wall F.3679. Crushed bricks were evidenced all over the layer along with an ash coat whose increase in amount and depth was recorded in the southern part of the unit. The mentioned components caused the coarse inner formation of the layer.
Consistency: soft, friable
Colour: Multicoloured: dark-grey, mid-grey, mid-orange, brown
Texture: silty-sand, silt, occasional clay
Bedding: coarsely layered
Inclusions: charcoals, seeds, stones, lenses of clay, fragments of plaster
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: change in the accumulation of the deposit uncovered below
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 2295
Total Deposit Volume: 2330
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 12
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 25
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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: Yes
Count of records:: 211 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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