Unit 22635

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of B. 131 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Discussion: This unit is a filling deposit much like u. 22617, though we are interpreting u. 22635 as an infill of B. 131 (versus u. 22617-- the foundation fill of B. 129) because of the evidence for activity at what we called the basal boundary of u. 22617 (specifically, an identifiably discrete dumping event [u. 22628] and antlers in the NW corner of sp. 500… plus the fill becoming higher in clay content.) This unit reflects very different effects of burning across the expance-- toward the W, it is very ashy & loose, while toward the SE it is dry & baked, and much more pink-orange in color (rather than orange & black). It was highly processed and contained relatively few finds for its volume, and compared to other burned buildings-- though 2 polka dot-painted figurines were remarkable. It was excavated by a combination of pick, trowel, and brush, depending on how close we came to wall & floor plaster. It was designated a priority unit in order to compare with the room fill of B. 77. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: orange & grey but extremely mottled with black 

Texture: sandy clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: lots of mud brick rubble, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear-- came down on plastered features of B. 131 & charcoal deposit in space 556 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22637, 22644, 22641, 22640, 22645, 22648, 22650, 22651, 22653, 22654 below: (Click to view the record) 22628 equal to: (Click to view the record) 21195 

Dry sieve volume: 1510 

Total Deposit Volume: 10777 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

<< BackDownload this Units Data