Unit 31371

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: mudbrick wall 

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

Discussion: This is a mudbrick wall running E-W, located in S part of Trench 4. It is the same wall as F. 8257 (they were recorded under different numbers as the wall was cut by an Islamic grave F. 7373). Only upper part of the wall was excavated, as it was believed that its upper part consisting of gray and orange bricks was in fact later wall placed directly on the top of an earlier one, consisting only of orange bricks. However, it seems that this was in fact one wall. Its lower part will be excavated in 2016. Generally, the wall was characterized by the bricks beimg placed in different arrangement. It was truncated from the N by an Islamic grave and by a Hellenistic pit F.7285.
In 2015 season the following courses of bricks were removed:
1st course:
Two large gray bricks could be identified (1st brick-northern (56x32x10 cm, 2nd , southern brick: 55x32x10 cm).
2nd course (as seen from the West: one gray brick (preserved dimensions are 29x42x9 cm), orange brick, northern (39x56x8 cm), orange southern brick (40x22x9 cm), orange brick (40x42x9 cm).
3rd course
N part:gray brick (72x35x9 cm)
S part, from the West: Orange brick (45x45x5 cm), gray (32x34x10 cm),gray (53x26x8 cm). 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: gray/orange 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: - 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: - 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 21029 equal to: (Click to view the record) 31372 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 155 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

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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