Unit 2124

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill,pit fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.70 m long, 0.40 m wide, 0.12 m deep 

Discussion: This again was quite a mixed deposit. The southern extent of this deposit was very hard to define, largely because if there was an edge to cut [2190] here it was removed as 1982. It was more easily definable in the 'shelf ' that 1955 lay in. Though 1955, 2126, 2125 and 2168 may have been quite separate inhumation episodes, no differences in the fill could be detected by this excavator (amc). In some sense, where 1982 was a general upper fill, 2124 is a general lower fill therefore.

(second sheet added around 17.9)
This deposit must now be regarded as the dump of material which covered 1955 after it had been redeposited above and on top of the chronologically later skeleton 2169 

Execution: trowel, hand shovel, small tools 

Condition: dry, warm 

Consistency: firm to weak (variable) 

Colour: variable, but mainly 2.5Y 4/2 dark greyish brown when fresh, drying to 10YR 5/2 greyish brown. Some mottling of darker grey and of lighter brown is visible however. 

Texture: sandy loam 

Bedding: massive, no internal lensing, layering visible 

Inclusions: occasional subangular and rounded frags ofmud brick (<20mm <5%), occasional plaster frags (<10mm <2%), occasional to moderate scattered charcoal flacks and small (<10mm) lumps (<5%), occasional scattered small (<5mm) stones / pebbles. Also occasional scattered lumps of daub / burnt clay (<10mm (2%) 

Post-depositional Features: some penetration by rootlets 

Basal Boundary: reasonably distinct in colour and texture from 2175 below (0-5mm) interface is flat. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1955 below: (Click to view the record) 2126, 1989, 2125 

Dry sieve volume: 3.2 

Total Deposit Volume: 21 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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