Unit 15400

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Deposition: finely bedded

Description: Trench 10 

Discussion: The midden (15400) had several lenses, many of which were very thin. There was a lot of building material (mud brick) that were unburnt and burnt throughout the midden. There was also a large quantity of large, unburnt animal bones. Although not excavated, midden (15400) was but by a late burial that had a wooden coffin. It was also cut by [15421] with late burial F.2844. (15400) sealed a dark, ashy fill layer that was fairly hard to distinguish, but different from the midden. 

Recognition: midden layer 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, mattock, hoe 

Condition: hot and windy 

Consistency: loose and friable 

Colour: dark grey with ashy flecks 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: very frequent bones; occasional stone, obsidian, clay ball, figurines; very occasional shell, mini-clay balls, pottery, beads 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation, grave cut [15421] 

Basal Boundary: poor onto fill layer 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15950 below: (Click to view the record) 15421 

Dry sieve volume: 940 

Total Deposit Volume: 968 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 30

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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