Unit 31239

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: midden,room fill 

Data Category Information: none

Description: Soft greyish-brown sandy silt with a thin concentration of compact light grey mortar in the southern end

no inclusions, but occasional charcoal lenses (contained in the flotation sample S.1) 

Discussion: 31239 was identified as a separate unit because it lies beneath U.31238, which was a thin plaster layer separating the two fills (31224 and 31239).

The fill material is similar to the lower half of U.31224. However, 31239 has more finds (particularly larger bone fragments) and charcoal, occasionally in thin lenses. Thus, 31239 seems more like midden material, perhaps used for backfilling a space before the plaster layer of U.31230 was laid.

Together, evidence from units 31184, 31210, 31221, 31224, 31238, and 31239 suggests distinct phases of infilling, floor building, and activities involving groundstones. Units below 31221 may belong to an earlier building than 105, as buttresses 3353 and 3365 never extend down into these depths. 

Consistency: soft, thin concentration of compact in southern end 

Colour: greyish-brown 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: compound, room fill and mortar 

Inclusions: charcoal 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 31238 

Dry sieve volume: 228 

Total Deposit Volume: 268 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

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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