Unit 21645

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden deposit 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: finely bedded

Discussion: 21645 is the topmost layer of the midden in space 490. The unit below is a charcoal layer in the midden. We excavated this unit using trowels and brushes. We believe that this unit was formed from dumping events from the two adjacent buildings (or more). 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: brownish grey 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: fragments of bone 3-4%, pieces of mortar and mudbrick 5%, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: change in accumulated deposition, very sharp, distinct concave North-South 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21658 below: (Click to view the record) 12394 

Dry sieve volume: 480 

Total Deposit Volume: 510 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

<< BackDownload this Units Data