Unit 3730

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: building infill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.21 x 0.21 x 0.15 m 

Discussion: (3730) represents a depsoit of plaster/clay and bricky material in the corner between walls 278 and 281. It appears to have been one of several deposits dumped in space 106, which accumulated after its use.

or a dump as part of foundation packing? (SF) 

Recognition: Distinguished by its clean brick/plaster/clay composition and fairly compact state. 

Definition: Defined by its different texture/colour. 

Execution: Trowel and pick. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: varies; plaster 2.5 Y 7/2 light grey; clay 2.5 Y 5/3 light olive brown; burnt clay (?) 10 YR 7/3 very pale brown; bricky material 10 YR 6/4 light yellowish brown; ashy material 2.5 Y 4/2 dark greyish brown 

Texture: clay/plaster/brick (sandy silt) 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 5% charcoal (flecks,small and medium sized pieces) bone medium sized pieces 

Post-depositional Features: heavily disturbed by animal burrowing and encrusted with salts 

Basal Boundary: a sharp, distinct basal boundary, although as it overlay the softer deposit this was irregular and wavy 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3347 below: (Click to view the record) 3359 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 6 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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