Unit 8853

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: top soil 

Data Category Information: Description: cleaning

Dimensions: the entire area of sp.226 

Discussion: The unit consits of the top soil in sp. 226 and surrounding walls. We removed an arbitrary layer 5 to 25 cm thick. It was ashy soil mixed with rubble material, pieces of mudbricks, animal bones, obsidian flakes, few pottery sherds and stones. We are trying to define the shape and the boundaries of the space, which is supposedly a street/courtyard (?) between the buildings. 

Recognition: by colour, texture 

Definition: not very clear 

Execution: hoe, trowel, brush 

Condition: dry to moist 

Consistency: loose to firm 

Colour: blakish-gray to gray, orange, brick-orangeç brown 

Texture: ashy clay, sandy clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: animal bones, obsidian flakes, stones, pottery sherds 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, plant roots, salts 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8854 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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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