Unit 5453

Category: Layer    dug in 2002

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Dimensions: 2.00m x 1.80m depth c. 0.10m 

Description: midden spit (3rd down) 

Recognition: Arbitrary 

Definition: slightly more mudbricky and ashy from lenses above 

Execution: mattock, shovel 

Condition: very sunny, occ. Wind 

Consistency: compact and greasy-lenses, stick together. 

Colour: Heterogenous - varies in the specific (?) from greyish black to a more buff-orange color with frequent plaster specks 

Texture: Very greasy, gives laminated layer look. Clayish silt over 50% clay, 40% silt, rest plaster and charcoal fragments/flecks 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: animal b one again is the most frequent althought no evidence of articulated pieces. More frequent obisidian than in later (upper) layers. Some pottery but late. 

Post-depositional Features: None obvious 

Basal Boundary: Arbitrary (?) to next spit. This spit relates to a small number of midden tipping episodes which in the main would appear to have been tipped from the west and they slope down to the east. They include ashey lenses, black charcoal cleanout of oven and also garbage relating to renovation/upkeep and buildings. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5454 below: (Click to view the record) 5452 

Dry sieve volume: 595 

Total Deposit Volume: 597 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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