Unit 23245

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Midden 

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

Discussion: This unit belongs to a new sequence of layers exposed directly below the 1rt midden sequence deposits U23227. As the unit above, correspond to a layered deposit composed by different episodes of activity with ashes, other organic material (charcoal, bones…) and also “garbage” through in that area before the B-162 and B-17 in what seems to be an open area. All this deposits are still sloping in direction NE-SW, with more or less the same morphological characteristics and coloration than above, but with less presence of charcoal in the composition.
We took a set of samples (S1/S2) for the upper part of this deposit, another set in the middle part (S3/S4) and a new set of samples for the lower part, where the presence of the charcoal was less and also the deposits seems to be more “clean” with less material (S5/S6).
We remove with the same unit number around 0.50 cm of this midden, mostly in a small trench in the deep sounding that extends 3 x 1 m parallel to the western wall of B-162 (from S3 to S6). The excavation of this trench confirmed that the midden extends also below the extension of B-162.
Again and arbitrary we stop the excavation of this layer and assigned a new unit number to a new sequence of layers below (U23249). 

Consistency: Medium 

Colour: Mostly grey and brwon 

Texture: Very clayish, but also with silt and sand 

Bedding: Compound paralel layers mostly of ash, but also clay slooping direction N-S 

Inclusions: Charcoal, natural stones 

Post-depositional Features: Not observed 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23249 below: (Click to view the record) 23227 

Dry sieve volume: 4500 

Total Deposit Volume: 4602 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

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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