Unit 16842

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: Mudbrick,mudbrick + mortar (wall) 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS: 500 cm; EW: 41 cm; Depth: 52 cm 

Discussion: F. 5050 is a mudbrick wall with mortar 16841 and bricks 16842 running north-south. It is truncated by F.2416 a late grave. The mudbrick is visible in the grave cut of F.2416, running along the basal boundary and the north and south profiles of the cut. This means that the mudbricks from F.5050 and F.2425 are in fact the same and a part of the same wall (16842 = 16844, and F.5050 = F.2425).
Mudbrick format 80cm x 40cm

*** DLG 22/8/12
This unit represents the mortar layers between the mudbrick courses of the eastern wall of b.107 (2425/5050). The mortar s ery firm and of clayey consistency and has tendency to fracture rather than crumble. There are few inclusions within the mortar but they include obsidian, bone, pottery, and smal stones

DSE and NMR 06/08/13
It was separated due to the different structure and colour of the uderlying wall (F3305). In the north it was limited by an unclean connection (mortar?) from feature 5074. The unit was probably built over feature 3305 after the building was abondoned or intentionally destroyed. Another possibility could be the intention of building an upper storey on an existing building. The unit has been divided by an artificial cut to the south (to gain knowledge about the connection to the eastern wall (F2413)) and by the corner of F5074 to the north. The wall was built in a horizontal sequence of firm bricks and crumbly mortar layers. The feature below looks different even though it was built equally. The difference to the nothern wall is not that clear, since the wall (unit 18351) is disturbed and the bricks look like a whole unindentifiable mass. The unit was excavated built a trowel and cleaned with a brush. 

Recognition: squarish structures in the planum; change in color and consistancy from the surrounding mudbricks 

Definition: clear 

Execution: small pick, trowel, brush, dustpan, fingers 

Condition: pleasant, under shelter 

Consistency: hard; very firm clayey material / firm, crumbly, loose mortar 

Colour: greyish yellow; mostly dark brown with some red and orange spot / grey dark 

Texture: silty clay; clayey / sandy - silty 

Bedding: massive / compound 

Inclusions: obsidian, bones, pottery, stone / very small stones, ash, charchoal lenses 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance, plant roots / erosion 

Basal Boundary: arbtrary, base of wall not excavated / flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 16800 equal to:16844 16841

Dry sieve volume: 106 

Total Deposit Volume: 141 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

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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