Unit 30856

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: wall bricks and mortar 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This unit was recognized as a later addition to wall f. 3952 when we began excavating room fill u. 30844 and realized it continued beneath what we had identified as wall f.3952. We then isolated this unit as a separate, and later course of bricks overlying room fill u. 30844, built up against wall f. 7171. It contained small pieces of bone and pottery, but otherwise consisted only of orange Neolithic mud-brick material. It was easy to remove due to being extremely dry and eroded. It was excavated with pick, trowel, and brush, begining with the courses cut into by pit f.7199 and moving toward the W. Still, below a thin lamination of room fill, the wall continued with more irregular, highly disturbed bricks below u. 30856, suggesting that u. 30856 was deposited soon after sp. 520 was filled, as there appears to have been a memory of the former extent of f. 3952. The other possibility is that the lamination of fill below u. 30856 was caused by animal burrowing and not the actual filling event. 

Consistency: crumbly and dry, loose where dry, more compact where wetter 

Colour: orange bricks, grey mortar 

Texture: mud-brick 

Bedding: layered; laid as bricks 

Inclusions: calcium, pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing, truncation by f. 7199 and [u.30228] 

Basal Boundary: marked by coming down on more bricks, after a lamination of fill in some places 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30844 below: (Click to view the record) 30837 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 105 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II 

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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