Unit 2174

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: foundation infill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 2 x 2m 

Description: from 2523 

Discussion: foundation infill - rises up / gets thicker to the east 

Execution: pick & trowel 

Condition: variable 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 2.5 Y 5/3 light olive brown, but there is some mottling and occasional fine layering of darker grey and organic brown material 

Texture: sandy clayey loam 

Bedding: largely massive, but with some fine layering within it 

Inclusions: occasional fragments of mudbrick (<30mm <2%); occasional fragments of burnt daub (<50mm <2%); occasional lumps of finely layered plaster (<60mm <2%), also finely crushed plaster; occasional charcoal, most in scattered lecks <5mm, but some larger (c.10mm) lumps are also present 

Post-depositional Features: some limited fine rootlet penetration, some small mammal burrowing, but also some unusual vertical cracking filled with a fine silt (the result of sun cracking, or earthquakes. this cracking up to 0.30 m deep. 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1985 below: (Click to view the record) 2184, 2185, 2540, 2188, 2189 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2523, 2547, 2553, 2526, 2518, 1458 

Dry sieve volume: 785 

Total Deposit Volume: 814 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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