Unit 3274

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: pit infilling 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.61 m x 0.60 m; depth; 0.10 m 

Discussion: Infilling in pit (3282)/F240 in space 154, next to platform in SW corner. Not really that different from (3266), except contained more plaster than (3266).
Difficult to follow the cut edges in places. Dry Sieve Information: Figure problematical 

Recognition: Colour and texture change noticed when digging pit, different from (3266). 

Definition: Defined by sides/cut of pit. 

Execution: Trowel, impatience. 

Condition: Slightly moist. 

Consistency: compact but friable when crushed (except for hard clay lumps) 

Colour: patchy 10 YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown; clay lumps are 7.5 YR 4/3 brown 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: plaster lumps, size varies from 10 cm to 100 cm lumps 60%, small frags. bone, stones small 1 mm, 1 pot sherd, small obsidian chips, hard clay lumps 30% 20-50 cm 

Post-depositional Features: very few roots 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/diffuse/contrast - faint/form - irregular/surfaces have pits and depressions 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3280 below: (Click to view the record) 3266, 3265 

Dry sieve volume: 1 

Total Deposit Volume: 27 

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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