Unit 31112
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: buttress (mudbrick+mortar)
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: We have been excavating half of the unit 31112 of feature 3356 (layer). This unit corresponds to the buttress F 3356 in building 107. It is composed of layers of mud bricks and layers of mortar. On the top of the unit there is also a layer of clair grey crumbly soft sediments with dark brown mortar clumps, mostly near the wall F3334. The unit was recognized because it was not a fill unit but a constructed unit with mud bricks and mortar layers. It is also different from the F 3355 (beneath F3356) because of the use of bricks and mortar in the construction of the buttress.
In order to make a flotation sample of the mortar only we gave it another unit number , U 31113
Important: The mudbricks have irregular slopes and are also different in size. The irregular surface of buttress F3355 gives the feeling that men built buttress F3356 without cleaning F3355 and by putting mud and mortar directly over buttress F3355 without making pre-formed mud bricks in the first place.
Consistency: crumbly soft on top, firm for the mudbricks and compact but crumbly for the mortar. Crumbly soft for the plaster inclusions
Colour: Clair grey for the mudbricks. On top little clumps of yellow clay and of black spots of charcoal in clair gray sediments. Dark-brown for the mortar. Some white plaster inclusions.
Texture: Silty clay
Bedding: Heterogeneous fill containing layers of mudbricks and layers of mortar. The layers are pretty straight. On top layer of crumbly soft clair grey sediments with dark brown mortar lumps.
Inclusions: Small spots of charcoal and of yellow clay quite frequents. Small fragments of bone, pottery sherds and little stones. A middle sized spot of phytoliths.
Post-depositional Features: 3 animal burrows
Basal Boundary: sloping
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 156
Total Deposit Volume: 167
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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