Unit 12124

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: Excavation of top room fill layer space 269. We inferred that this unit was room fill because it was bounded by walls and because of its color and texture, and we proceeded with the excavation by mattocking and then cleaning with a hoe, cleaning any possible features with a trowel and then repeating the process, being careful not to mattock any possible features. There were surprisingly large chunks of plaster and mudbrick, many of which we took to be features until we realized they were sitting on fill. They were probably fallen pieces of wall or roof, although it is still unclear why they were so large. One feature we discovered was a raised cylinder (a pillar?), unit XXX, that remains 60-70 cm above the floor. It is difficult to tell where the floor is because there are several layers of floor and we were excavating in haste.

Volume roughly estimated (FS 29/6/09) 

Recognition: color, texture 

Definition: bounded by walls and late trench 

Execution: mattock, hoe, trowel 

Condition: clear, varied (hot to cold, calm to breezy) hurried excavation 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: light brown (dominant) to orange-brown to gray-brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: large mud-brick and plaster fall inclusions, each < 1m in length and a brick in width. Small amounts of bone, ceramic, obsidian, charcoal, and phytoliths. 

Post-depositional Features: rodent holes 

Basal Boundary: uneven - ends at poorly preserved floors 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12136 below:plus

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5000 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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