Unit 22186

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: buttress 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Discovered in 1998: F. 248 (no units number assigned in 1998). The feature has been interpreted as a buttress/small internal division, abutting wall 230 and sitting on a ledge (F. 243). It comprised traces of thin white plaster layers and red paint covering a mudbrick core. Originally 22 cm long, it now shows traces of erosion: the upper part of the plaster layers covering the brick are not preserved, as well as the central upper part of the brick itself. The preserved plaster layers that cover the northern and southern sides of the brick, are 0.9 cm thick.The function of this feature was considered unclear in 1998: one interpretation was of a visible indicator or of some form of spatial division within space 154.
During this year excavation the plaster layers covering the buttress and its core have been associated to a unique unit number. The removal of these layers has shown that the mudbrick was laying over a plaster floor (U22189). As already mentioned, according to 1998 report, the buttress was laying over a ledge (F. 243): nowadays the layers under 22189 are quite eroded and it is not possible to say if they originally belonged to the mentioned ledge or to some eroded make-up layers. 

Consistency: plaster layers (covering the buttress) are friable; mudbirick (core of buttress) is firm 

Colour: most plaster layers are white and light grey; two plaster layer (minimum) are red; mudbrick is dark orange-red 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: plaster layers are layered; mudbrick is massive 

Inclusions: phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: of mudbrick: levelled, abrupt, prominent, smooth and flat surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22189 

Total Deposit Volume: 2 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

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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