Unit 7962

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: room fill,wall baulk 

Data Category Information: Description: baulks

Discussion: This unit was begun to clean up some remaining wall baulk on the eastern south wall and remove some arbitrary left dirt jutting out on the surface defined by units 7953 and 7949. In removing this layer, an alcove or recess (plastered on top) was found in the wall where before it had seemed that the wall plaster was missing. The floor surface continued into the recess defining its bottom. The recess is approx. the thickness of the wall but it was not clear if it extended into the bricks of the second wall of the building to the south. The floor was not burnt so it is unlikely that this alcove was an oven as Ian wanted it to be. Building 48 to the east had an oven alcove similarly placed in the SE wall. There were charcoal bits stuck in the plaster on the roof of the alcove, helping us to defne the extent of the alcove.
Thickness of unit estimated in PX (DE 18/07/09). 

Recognition: Dirt covering white plastered wall above thin, darker layer 

Definition: Clearly bounded by wall plaster and floor surface 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool, not dry but not very damp either 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: medium brown 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: disarticulated animal bones, some charcoal in a layer parallel to upper plaster of wall recess 

Post-depositional Features: cultural 

Basal Boundary: thin dark layer with salt deposits, harder than the layer removed 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13699 below:7925 / 7926 / 7931 /7332 / 7933 / 7934 / 7935 / 7936 / 7937 / 7939 / 7946 / 7947 / 7956

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 50 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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