Unit 21511

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Midden-like infill 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: Sloping to the east 

Discussion: This unit was below U 21181 (grey infill). It was a unit which was layered. It consisted of a brick fragment-layer (thicker) and one or two thin ash layers and compact grey infill (also very thin). It was excavated with pickaxe. It was relatively find rich (in comparison with above units) in animal bones, also ground stone and obsidian were found. But considering the amount sieved, it was maybe not especially find rich.

In my opinion this group of layers represent a single infill event where a thick collapse of brick or construction debris mainly consisting of brick (clayey) was deposited in space 40, which by then was not an internal area but external. In the approximate same time some small deposits were thrown in over this brick layer. Below it a similar group of infill/infill event is visible (U21518).

Amongst the dry sieve finds was a human tooth pendant - the second of its kind (?) at Catal. It was however a bit fragmented. The other was found in B.102 in unit 30567. 

Consistency: Soft 

Colour: Black and brown 

Texture: Clay and silt 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: Ash, brick, phytoliths, secondary carbonates 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: Clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21518 below: (Click to view the record) 21181 

Dry sieve volume: 1235 

Total Deposit Volume: 1262 

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 

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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