Unit 6269

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fire installation 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.45 x 0.35 m 

Discussion: Fairly shallow scoop was filled with a loose and slightly less dry and dark deposit. When the fill was emptied, shallow scoop of drier, reddish clayey "lining" was revealled and subsequently linked as next unit (6270)
This dark fill probably represented either burnt residue directly beneath fire installation. 

Recognition: colour and texture 

Definition: clear colour boundaries , markedly softer 

Execution: trowelled side inwards 

Condition: slightly more moist thin surroundings 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: 10 YR 3/3 dark brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: flecks of ash (10%) and small inclusions of charcoal 10 - 15 %. 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp smooth anthropic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6270 below: (Click to view the record) 6275 

Dry sieve volume: 1.5 

Total Deposit Volume: 2 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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