Unit 23131

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Packing for construction 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: Room infill B-139 

Discussion: Unit exposed directly below the packing/leveling layers (U23110=23090=23084) placed to build the B-131. This layer extended mostly in the western part of the building and was deposit to level the slope defined for the U23139, the latest fill for the pit U23147. Was kind of brown orangish, pretty compact, with rubble and building material remains in the composition and can also be considered as packing leveling layer for the construction of the B-131. Anyway this is not clear enough, can also be the first deposit in relation of the room infill for B-139.
More or less on top of this layer, in the western part of the building (the layers in that area where a bit mixed) we define the remains of a collapsed wall F8378, which was covered by the layer U23084.

So, up sum the first hypothesis: After the pit U23147 was sealed with the redeposit midden U23139, on top of this layer, and to try to level the slope, they placed the layer U23131 in the western part of the building. Once the surface was more or less levelled, maybe they demolish the last remains visible of the western wall of the B-139 (F8378) and level again the entire surface with the units U23110=23090=23084. Within this process of leveling, four foundational burials were placed (F8373, 8374, 8375 and 8376). Once the area was completely levelled and the foundational offers placed, they start the process to build the B-131.

The other possibility is that after the pit U23147 was sealed with the redeposit midden U23139, on top of this layer and to try to level the slope, they placed the layer U23131 in the western part of the building. Then the visible remains of western wall of B-139 (F8388) collapsed. On top of it, when they decided to build the B-131 they placed the units U23110=23090=23084 and the foundation burials.

We want to notice that this layer had been partially excavated properly only in the southern part of the building. In the northern part, the rest of the remains had been removed with the arbitrary layer U23155. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Orangish mostly, but very mixed (brown and greyisth also) 

Texture: Mostly clay almost 90 % 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Flecks and small pieces of bricks and mortar and otherbuiliding material, and small natural stones. 

Post-depositional Features: Not observed 

Basal Boundary: Change in acumulated deposits, difusse, distinct, wavy 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23139, 23144 below: (Click to view the record) 23084, 23090, 23110 

Dry sieve volume: 3045 

Total Deposit Volume: 3085 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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  

Lab Team Data

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