Unit 30221

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: infill of b.110 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: After U. 30216 this is the next layer of the infill of building 110, space 486. It was heterogenous and partly layered. Mostly on the S side of building, it was a thin (about 2 cm) layer of beige soil under which we have, often but not always, orange soil. Under these beige or orange layers there was mixed spots/layers of dark grey, orange and brown soil.
At the SW part of the building (N from the hellenistic pit, F. 3935) the rubble of brick was visible. At that place we also found a small patch of plaster, which at the beginning seemed to be a floor but at the end it appeared to be just a patch.
In the layer we had many inclusions as the phytoliths and charcoal but also a few decayed plants and some kind of plant lying in the one place which actually could be the food of some animal. We have also many finds, including animal bones. Especially we had many long bones and mandibles, a few scapulas and parts of vertebrae – in one case with the sacrum.

Despite the fact that the infill of b.110 was a single creation, we decide to divide it on a few units as the fill is really thick and we had too many finds. So our layer is finished arbitrary.

During exploration of u. 30241 it apeared that the hellenistic pit (F.3935) in the SW corner of our building actually was not finished in the previous season. At the result it is possible that some finds from that pit mixed with the rest of material from U. 30221 which is late neolithic in date. 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Beige on a top (especially on the S side), orange and dark gray (sometimes as two separate layers, sometimes mixed). Also spaces with mid brown soil. Near the E wall (F. 3910) orange layer is very thick 

Texture: sandy clay (on top), clay (fragments), silty clay 

Bedding: Layered (in S), compound (in the rest) 

Inclusions: charcoal, phytoliths, decayed plants, bricks (loose), natural stones 

Post-depositional Features: Animal Hollow 

Basal Boundary: Arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30241 below: (Click to view the record) 30216 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 1605 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5

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:

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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