Unit 2341

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: floors,niche fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 57 x 73 x 15 cm 

 

Discussion: Lower fill of lower niche in N wall of 117. Upper surface of layer has a series of unstructured and discontinuous plaster 'floors' or surfaces, beneath there is collapse/fill of building material. But there are lower floors towards the base of the niche. Niche is at least 73 cm deep, the discontinuous back floors have bone and shell, and there is one broken clay ball at back. None of sides plastered and niche goes deep into deposits behind the wall. Niche floor is plastered for the front 30 cm only. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 4/4 brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 60 % building material, 20 % charcoal, 20 % mixed clay 

Post-depositional Features: few roots 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic, irregular 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2375 below: (Click to view the record) 2330 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2322, 1873, 2329, 2088, 2341 

 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 50 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 2

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 117

Features:: none

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.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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