Unit 6550
Category: layer dug in 2000
Area: Trench I
Interpretive Categories: Collapse,Room fill
Data Category Information: Location: building
Dimensions: ~ 1.5m x ~ 1.5m
Discussion: Room fill, Space 190 (below 6542). Rubbly room fill/collapse. Eastern more trampled and recorded as 6557, possible surface. Unit consists of mixed rubble material. There weren't any internal, regular/fine layers, but there were some regular lenses with plant remains (phytoliths) and lines. Near the north-eastern corner of the space there were some large mudbrick lumps. After they were removed, characteristic soft brown soil was exposed. It was clear that these bricks must have been collapsed wall debris. Pots were relatively few, there was charcoal, obsisian, bone, mudbrick and plaster pieces. It shows mostly the same characteristics as the underlying unit (6570), but was arbitrarily finished and a new unit number taken. Before digging the new unit in the same area (Space 190) the doorway blocking was removed between wall F304 and wall F715 - the entrance between Space 190 and Space 192.
Recognition: Flattish upper surface had strong phytolith/salting separating it from lumpy plaster debris 6542
Definition: Surrounded by walls on three sides (though now decided part on north wall is blocking) and Mellaart section on the south
Execution: Hand pick and trowel
Condition: Hot, dry and sunny
Consistency: Mostly soft, somewhere firm
Colour: Dark brown / 10YR 4/4, 3/4 dark yellowish brown
Texture: Silty clay loam
Bedding: Massive, no internal layers, mixed fill material
Inclusions: Pottery, bone, charcoal, obsidian
Post-depositional Features: Roots, animal holes
Basal Boundary: Mostly shares some characteristics with underlying unit; faint, wavy
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 165
Total Deposit Volume: 218
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
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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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2000 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 73 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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