Unit 15370
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS 1.73m - EW 2.39m - 0.08m
Discussion: Unit 15370 is located in Space 449 under unit 15362. This room fill unit contains some clay balls, belonging to cluster 15343. In front of F.3333 spreads a lense of wall plaster and burned material, which has the unit number 15380 and is surrounded by 15370. Unit 15370 in the western part of space 449 is characterised by a large clay lense. This clay lense was in discussion of being a floor or surface, but sherds of pottery are sticking vertically in it. The eastern part of the unit is characterised by softer, darker soil, with very few inclusions of clay. It looks generally more homogeneous than in the western part of the unit. 15370 was created to describe the fill around the wall plaster deposional event 15380 that "happened" roughly in the centre of Space 449. But this fill unit does not form a natural unit, it is rather defined by being the fill on the level of the building material lense 15380, and was therefore arbitrarily separated from the fill superimposed (15362) this fill and from the fill under this unit (16936). The composition of exceptional finds though is slightly different to that of the fill units under this fill (16936, 16941), as we have here a more mixed assemblage of finds with bone, obsidian, stone, pottery. Clay balls are spreading through all the unit, but are avoinding the wall plaster deposit 15380, what is a definite hint that we are dealing with at least two depositional events, if not more, in a stratigraphically similar position (events taking place close to each other in time line). A separation of depositional events can maybe be seen between the eastern and the western part, as the eastern part is characterised by completely different soil than in front of F.5057. In the SE corner, there are still the outskirts of clay ball cluster 15343 visible, forming a small concentration. Clay balls can also be found in the western part of Space 449, but only in single position, not forming heaps or particular dense clusters. Clay balls are only showing up in the lower part of 15380 (see unit sheet and diary) and as 15380 always formed a little bump in the space, I think event can be linked as follows: There was a clay ball depositional event in the SE corner of Space 449, some of the clay balls were rolling down the heap, lying now spreaded in front of F.5057, and next to the clay ball heap (15343), in front of F.3333 was a bucket of wall plaster collapse deposited, after the clay ball heap had accumulated. These events are stratigraphically not very far from the surface 16947 in Space 449 but who knows how long a surface was exposed before they started using it as midden? So, the room fill belonging to 16936 and also 16941 does not necessarily have to be too far apart from the clay ball depositional event, that clay balls just blocked the space in the SE corner, so other depostional material had to be chucked in front of it (perspective from entering the room through Space 450). The clay ball being located between F.3326 and F.5057 (U.16961) surely belong to a different kind of depositional event.
Recognition: different composition and texture of room fill, fill except lense 15380
Definition: clear except for arbitrary NW corner
Execution: trowel, small trowel, brush
Condition: pleasant breeze
Consistency: soft fill with compact lenses of clay and burned building material
Colour: greyish fill with brownish-reddish spots and pale yellow clay lenses
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: heterogeneous fill containing clay lumps (W) and softer, darker soil
Inclusions: few pottery, bone, stone, lots of clay, some building material
Post-depositional Features: roots
Basal Boundary: arbitrary, undulating, separated arbitrarily from 16936
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 52
Total Deposit Volume: 54
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 6
Number of Related Diary Entries: 6
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 28 Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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