Unit 2173

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: moulding 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: moulding; Material: brick; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 115 x 50 x 45mm 

 

Description: 'inverted breast' built into wall 

 

Discussion: This appears so far to be a moulded feature such as a 'breast' which is made of a bricky clay mix then covered in plaster & set into the wall. Further investigation will perhaps decide whether it was made for this wall, plaster first, or brought from elsewhere ready-made & inserted into the wall.

Since artefacts have been found in other mouldings perhaps this should be dry sieved through a 1 mm mesh. At present the entire unit has gone as a archive sample except for a small piece used for the soil identification. 

 

Execution: leaf trowel 

Condition: warm, dry, still 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: 7.5YR 5/4 - 4/4 brown 

Texture: silty clay with 2-5% fine sand 

Bedding: massive (?) 

Inclusions: charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: fine root activity, salting at interior boundary 

Basal Boundary: n/a? - this is covered in plaster, (clear anthropogenic boundary) & set into wall 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2177 below: (Click to view the record) 2133, 1909 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 71

Features:: (Click to view the record) 203 (niche/recess)

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.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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