Unit 22221

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill beneath a floor excavated prior to 2015 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This is an abritrary unit of infill that is the same as the infill layer u22208 that was removed below wall f2035. It consists of burnt rubble from walls of a structure as well as dumped mixed heterogenous material. During excavation, plaster features were revealed with some painted plaster in north east corner. A floor had previously been revealed in southwest corner below the infill. However, a small patch of disconnected floor was revealed above this level though disconnected, it appears to be similar to floor in space 94. The infill layer goes below wall F2032.
19/07/2015 -koc
infill 22221 continues below wall f2185 and is above a floor that predates B52. Dimensions and elevation thus pertain only to this unit within space 93. The painted plaster was interpreted as slipped wall plaster and removed as X1.
Updatee by Katie 22/07/2015 - layer was excavated to level of orange and white patchy floor u22290 below. This is uneven and slopes across the space irregularly with an older plaster floor in the north of the space and large cuts in the north east and south east corners. The infill layer may have been two episodes of infill and should have been two layers as the infill is between two bricks on wall f2032.
This unit continues below wall f2183 and below s91. 

Consistency: friable-firm 

Colour: mottled mid brown with patches of orange and grey 

Texture: sand clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: less than 2% charred grains and seeds; 2% small-medium charcoal; 10% small to large plaster; 20% large burnt orange brick; 20% large burnt grey mortar; 10% medium natural stone and rock fragments; 10% small-large grey clay aggregates; 2% small red painted plaster 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, insects, compaction below walls 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary - seems to continue below walls f2035 & f2032 and floor of s91. Diffuse and irregular- excavation was halted as one patch of floor was revealed that may have been destroyed by infill process. Updated 22/07/2015 Katie - basal bounday is constructed on at least two floors but these are in poor condition and cut at northeast and southeast corners. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22290 below: (Click to view the record) 22107, 22108, 21394 equal to: (Click to view the record) 22208 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 1773 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 11

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5

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

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