Unit 23160

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Discussion: The unit assigned under the number: 23160 refers specifically to the lower strata of densely laminated midden that was identified (below U.23143) as an extensive deposit accumulated in the past within the huge open / external area. The dump-area had been conventionally divided in the course of the excavation season 2017 into the two spaces: the Western - Sp.625, and the Eastern – Sp.631/Sp.610.
The described here part of the waste-area (U.23160) was located in the Western segment of the deposit. Its limits had been defined by the several features that go as follows:
- To the West the clear restriction has been identified on an outline of the huge ditch F.8382 (cut-23147) that truncated the midden along its entire Western length extended of NS alignment. Most plausibly the original restriction of the deposit to the west was set on the Eastern wall of B.139 whose remnants had been revealed in the lower part of the strata. However, the mentioned mud-brick structure had been also truncated by the cut-U.23147.
- The Southern restriction of the U.23160 composed of the serial of collapsed walls that evidently limited the accumulation process of the lower strata of the waste material.
- The Northern limit had been allocated more arbitrarily due to the constrains of the time on a later wall running EW which was erected within the upper part of the midden.
- Alternatively, the Eastern limit corresponded with the position of the overlying E-wall F.7712 of the B.131. The NS alignment of the wall delineated further strategy of the excavation within the area below the mentioned Building.
The midden U.23160 was characterized by dense lamination of varied materials that had been already recognized within the same types of the deposits on the site. All of them formed concave layers of the dumped waste. The bottom of the layer was set arbitrarily on the conventionally established elevation ca. 1010.50 m a.s.l. The latter altitude corresponded the revealed remnants of the E-wall of B.139 composing the western restriction of the deposit below U.232634. 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: dark-grey, mid-brown, mid-black, 

Texture: ash, clay, silty-clay 

Bedding: compound layered , laminated 

Inclusions: charcoals 20% 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23634 below: (Click to view the record) 23143 

Dry sieve volume: 2073 

Total Deposit Volume: 2097 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

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:

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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