Unit 22350

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: mortar 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: mortar; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: First we cleaned all the features, the objective was try to see and clarify the position and the relationship between the units that was exposed from last year (F8010-8011-8012) and their relation with other layers and features, exposed from Mellaart period. Apparently we was just between the last occupation layers from the Space 565 and in the beginning for a new space 580.

After cleaning, we was not able to see clearly the relationship between the F8010 and F8011, and also was not clear that under F8010 existent another wall (F8012). At the same time seemed that the layers excavated last year (U31600, U31603 and U31614) had a continuity under the remains of F8011.
The only thing that was clear was a brown and very compact layer (U22350) that we was thinking that maybe could be the remains of a foundation layer from the F8011 that was not completely removed last year. So we decided to excavate this layer, give it a new unit number and try to verify the next relationships:
• If the wall F8010 continues under the U22350, and if the wall F8011 was completely gone.
• Confirm that the U22350 is the remains or a truncation of a foundation layer (then is the same as the U31614 exposed last season?)
• Confirm that under U22350 continuous all the layers removed in the Sp565 (10/05/2016 --CB)

When we remove the U22350, we realize very clear that the morphologic characteristics of the remains of F8010 and the bricks under the layer U22350 was exactly the same, and that both things was clearly connected. Anyways, looking at the profile exposed, was clear that the stratigraphy continuous under this bricks, so we decide to remove it just to see the extension of the layer U31603, and if the wall F8010 was longer in direction N. We start, but after a while was clear that the line of plaster visible in the profile was not the remains of the layer U31603, was the remains of the wall plaster of the wall F8011. So with this evidence, we decide just to expose the wall plaster for the F8011, removing the rests of U31614 that was not completely removed in the season before.

Finally we exposed the complete wall plaster layer (U31608) from the F8011, whose inner side was slopping a bit to the north, which explains why there was still remains of the levels excavated in 2015.

Therefore, the layer U22350 was clearly just one mortar layer more in the F8011. This feature and F8010 are bonded and are higher that we was thinking. So for the moment we are still in the Sp565, and there are any evidence for the F8012, and for the foundation layers U31622 and 31623 (11/05/2016 --CB) 

Consistency: fiabre and very firm 

Colour: Dark brown 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal, and small stones 

Post-depositional Features: salts 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:none below: (Click to view the record) 31609 equal to: (Click to view the record) 31610 

Dry sieve volume: 10 

Total Deposit Volume: 40 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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  

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