Unit 31125
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: wall - mudbrick and mortar
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: JHB 05-08-2013:
Unit 31125 is one layer of mudbrick and the mortar below it, in the wall F. 3303, the ESE of B. 105. This unit was removed to bring the area down to the same level as other parts of the wall. The area will be cut by a E-W section thru the buttress, wall, and walls of B. 106 to the East. The unit was excavated with a handpick down to the mortar, which was removed by trowel. A buffer was left between it and the plaster on the wall to the East (F. 2424). This buffer was removed using a small, thin metal tool (Stukatöreisen) to preserve the plaster.
TSK 20-08-2013:
Our working-hypothesis when starting the excavation of wall 3303 was that it is independent from buttress F. 5063 and the wall east of it F. 2424. But after the section was finished, it b ecame clear, that it is connected with both of the through morter and mudbrick and therefore contemporaneous. This led us to see conclusion, that the part, where all the features are connected must have been double wall, on which wall F. 2424 was built later on as a thinner wall. The double wall now has the feature number 3380.
Consistency: firm, mortar-very firm
Colour: mid brown (mudbrick), dark brown (mortar)
Texture: silty clay (mudbrick), clay (mortar)
Bedding: heterogenous (mb), massive (mortar)
Inclusions: mudbrick - mortar
Post-depositional Features: light rodent burrows, minor roots in burrows
Basal Boundary: flattish, loping towards F. 2424 (East)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 122
Total Deposit Volume: 137
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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| Buildings: none |
| Spaces: none |
| 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 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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