Unit 23084

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: packing 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: (23084) is a 'blocked' unit comprised of multiple layers of packing and activity debris, unevenly distributed throughout Sp.504, prior to the contruction of B.131. We had just begun to define these various layers stratigraphically when instruction came down from on high to mattock the lot down to an arbitrary level below the posthole bases. We modified this directive by setting collapsed wall (23134), which underlies most of the deposits subsumed by (23084), as our destination level to regain stratigraphic control, and by digging firespots (23027) hastily but by trowel in order to roughly understand them (see US 23027). Otherwise, we mattocked.

Included in the blocked unit (23084) are: loose rubble and brown silt-clay in the upper E of the space that respects the base of wall F.7708; packed yellow-orange rubble running below F.7708, above (23134), and equivalent to (23090) to the east; ash spreads in the W of the space; redeposited midden seemingly dumped in the NW corner and south central part of the space; a harder, greyer rubble area in the SW of the space; and below much of this interleaving layers of rubble, ash, and brown-black charcoal-rich laminations. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid grey, brown 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: 5% medium pieces of mortar in light brown colour. 

Post-depositional Features: levelling 

Basal Boundary: levelled, the distinctness is diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23131 below: (Click to view the record) 23037 equal to: (Click to view the record) 23090, 23110 

Dry sieve volume: 2784 

Total Deposit Volume: 2845 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 10

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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