Unit 31184
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: activity surface,fill
Data Category Information: none
Description: 1-4. Uniform, compact dark greyish-brown sandy silt fill sitting on top a heterogenous layer of the same dark fill mixed with soft yellowish clay and light grey patches of morter/plaster. In the SW niche by the buttress, faint traces of probable brick and mortar collapse. In the northern half ot the building, uneven and bumpy, surface consisting predominantly of the light yellowish clay.
5. Burnt plaster patches mainly in the dark greyish-brown fill.
6. Animal burrows in the northern half of the building.
7. Flat arbitrary
Discussion: The unit is recognized as fill on the basis of ist mixed soil compostion, lack of a recognisable floor surface, and the fact that the brick and mortar structure (U. 18372) in the middle of the room extends deeper down into the fill.
- The soil composition changes within the unit: dark, greyish-brown mudbrick fill dominates the upper layers, which further down the composition becomes more heterogenous with yellowish clay and grey mortar/plaster. Thus it seems that the fill is an erosion layer coming from the walls; there are no indications of a roof having collapsed (e.g. no timber few phytoliths). Most of the finds, are standard mudbrick fill material (bone, pottery, stone). However the relatively high quantities of ground stones, some of them refitting (X1 and X3, X10 and x15, x13 and x14) suggests that we may be seeing erostion interspersed with waste deposition.
In the NW niche there was a concentration of potsherds of various types, together with one of the refiting ground stones (x13 and x14). One sherd had a lense of phytoliths stuck to ist surface; the phytoliths were sampled for botanical analysis (S.13). APV, the main excavator of the pottery concentration, did not notice any distinctive patterns in the deposit. Again the evidence suggest waste deposite.
The riddle of the room has two coral points: the brick and mortar structure (U. 18372) and a modified ground stone slab south of the structure. Both align roughly in the NW-SE axis. The brick and mortar structure is probably sopme kind of an installation or a platform rather than a piece of collapsed wall; the structure extends deep into the fill and has no signs of breakage.
Curiously, the structure is associated with two pieces of groundstone: X11 and X1 (U. 31210) X10 a potato-sized stone, was latged onto the structure, probably held in place by a thin film of the fill. A few cm below, the large ground stone slab (x1, U. 31210) is also latged into the brick and mortar structure. This ground stone will be discussed in more detail in ist unit sheet.
In sum, unit 31184 is most likely a fill with an artificial basal boundary, and thus should be considered together with U. 31210, U. 18372 and overlying units.
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Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 957
Total Deposit Volume: 987
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 16
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 16
Number of Related Diary Entries: 7
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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: Yes
Count of records:: 2 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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