Unit 21622

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Room infill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: Room fill within sealed structure of B. 132. 

Discussion: The room fill within sealed structure of B. 132 had been not excavated in 2014.

Excavated 2015 SEASON:
Unit number: 21622 was assigned in order to record northern part of the room-fill within Sp.531, B132. The southern limit of the fill had been set arbitrary along a line oriented E-W that was positioned 2.5m toward North from the southern wall [F.3679]. The latter research strategy allowed to obtain a section across the Building and evidence the nature of accumulation processes that took place after the abandonment. Due to the deposit, considered as the fill (21622), was dumped into the forsaken building structure, its other 2 boundaries (Northern, Eastern) had solid restrictions defined by mud-brick constructions (respectively: F.7584, F.7149). However its western boundary remain unclear.
The room-fill consisted of dense sediments whose major part comprised of small fragments of bricks embraced in sandy-silt material. Occasionally, there were also fallen wall-plaster fragments recorded within the unit along with mortar. It was possible to distinguish small difference in texture between deposits evidenced in upper strata and the lower ones. The latter were tempered by more sandy inclusions. Basal boundary of the deposit was uneven, and it appeared that deposit was loaded on top of the varied type of sediments (U.21670) placed earlier all over the Sp.531. In the Southern and South-Western part of the mentioned interior there were for instance materials comprised mostly of orange broken bricks and fallen plaster fragments and in North-Eastern segment there was midden-like deposit evidenced (U.21692).
Worth noticing is the fact that within the room-fill on the elevations extended between 1011,09 -1010,95 a.s.l. there were 5 circular and oval burial pits recorded of immense size that most probably were related with foundation funeral rites performed in pre-constructional phase of overlying B.77. The execution of those burials in the past within sealed Sp.531 makes significant the process of practical accumulation with particular type of materials, and concurrently carried out symbolical preparing the ground before erection of the new edifice. 

Consistency: friable, firm when dried 

Colour: multicoloured: mid-brown, mid-orange, dark-grey, occassionally white 

Texture: sandy-silt, silt, occassional silty-clay 

Bedding: compound, layered 

Inclusions: fragments of bricks (30%), mortar (8%), plaster (2%) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowings, burial cuts 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21670 below: (Click to view the record) 22080 

Dry sieve volume: 70 

Total Deposit Volume: 7300 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

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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