Unit 31542

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: mortar of wall 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: mortar

Description: not excavated in 2015 

Discussion: A mortar U.31542 had been recorded as the paste that joint different kinds of mud-bricks U.31541. they both constituted a structure built as a latter addition on top of the badly truncated walls of B.132 (F.7584 and 7149). The presented construction might be regarded as retention wall that was erected after the abandonment of the mentioned building in order to create solid restriction providing the accumulation of the midden (U.32711) to the north. However, more likely (considering the L-shaped alignment of the wall which formed a real corner) it might have been set to restrict accumulation of the sediments constituting room-fills within the interior of the abandoned house. The sealed area was eventually used as burial ground assigned as Sp.602.
As regards to the mortar U.31542 it referred to layers of varied thickness (2-4cm) recognized between courses of bricks (31541). Considering the composition of the paste it must have been prepared as one subsistence in order to join reused bricks and form the solid wall. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark-grey, dark-brown 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32712 below: (Click to view the record) 21684, 21686, 21692 equal to: (Click to view the record) 31541 

Total Deposit Volume: 145 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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