Unit 22617

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: foundation deposit for B. 129,room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This unit constitutes a massive deposit of processed construction material used to fill in B. 131 after abandonment. It was relatively clean, with minimal inclusions and finds. On top of this layer, the touristic walkway for the north shelter was constructed, explaining the source of any intrusive modern material (in addition to evident animal burrowing within the unit). The unit was stopped when we began to see a great deal of antler coming from the NW corner of space 500, and the presence of u. 22628-- an active, homogeneous dumping event-- was spotted in the SW corner of space 500. Across the room as a whole, the fill appeared much greyer and higher in clay content, although aside from these individual markers, the boundary between 22617 & 22635 is highly diffuse, and difficult to pinpoint with certainty. The change in the nature of the fill has led us to associate this fill with the construction of B. 129 & u. 22635 with the abandonment of B. 131, though this transition was probably more gradual than the disctinction makes it seem. 

Consistency: varied-- friable to compact 

Colour: primarily orange-- some black and dark grey mottling 

Texture: sandy silt loam 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: animal bone, minimal charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing, construction of N shelter walkway, burial cuts in space 77 

Basal Boundary: diffuse-- identified by signs of activity & transition to more clay-y fill 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22628 below: (Click to view the record) 21185 equal to: (Click to view the record) 22193 

Dry sieve volume: 915 

Total Deposit Volume: 9082 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

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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