Unit 8872

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: N-S 45/60 cm; E-W 172 cm 

Discussion: Unit 8872 comprises the fill within cut U. 8873. Both the cut and the fill are later than the white clay, excavated as U. 8871, that is why it was decided to be excavated first. The cut and the fill have damaged U. 8871.
At the beginning it seemed as a burrial - the dimensions, the orientation seemed to support this assumption. After we excavated a layer 40 cm thick and there was no indication of a skeleton, we decided to stop.
The fill consisted of loose gray-brownish silty clay mixed with ash. There were fine layers of ash within the fill. The fill contained also small pieces of mudbricks, pieces of animal bones, obsidian chips and pottery sherds (including several L. Roman/ E. Byzantine sherds).
An iron nail was found as well as a fragment of a clay ball.
The concentration of material was higher in the W part of the fill. 

Recognition: by colour and texture 

Definition: clear at the N, S and SW; not very clear - the rest 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry to moist 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: gray-brownish, yellowish (mudbricks), gray (ash) 

Texture: silty clay mixed with ash 

Bedding: wavy, layered 

Inclusions: animal bones, obsidian chips, pieces of mudbricks, pottery sherds, a fragment of a clay ball 

Post-depositional Features: rodent holes, plant roots 

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8873 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

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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