Unit 7960

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: bin fill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Deposition: homogeneous

Description: full-on sampling 

Discussion: Tracking: Full-On.
This unit excavated the soil the the west of the plaster line dividing 7959 and 7960. This line was interpreted as a later phase wall of the bin, if the bin was ever one whole bin, or the eastern edge of the bin if 7959 was a platform rather than a bin. The plaster line was removed in order to excavated this unit, and to understand the relationship between 7959 and 7960.
The bottom of the bin had a very thin plaster surface similar to that in 7959, but 2-3 cm lowe than that of 7959. At the same level approx. as the surface in 7959, there is a cut in the plaster along the southern wall behind 7960, but excavation did not show any surface, so the reason for this cut remains unclear, perhaps there was an unplastered surface at the level of the surface of 7959 in 7960?

Thickness of unit estimated in PX (DE 18/07/09). 

Recognition: homogenous layer to the left of a plastered line seperating units 7959 and 7960 

Definition: homogenous fill on western end of feature 1652 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot and still 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: light brown 

Texture: clayish-silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: small bits of charcoal and some obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: thin plaster surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7961 below: (Click to view the record) 7959 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 36 

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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