Unit 16850
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: mudbricks
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: Mudbrick in mudbrick wall F.2424, running roughly north-south alignment.
JMR 14/8/11 The micromorphological sample was taken from the brick and mortar of F.2424.
2012: This unit represents the mud brick layers of the eastern wall of B.105 (F.2424). The mud bricks of this wall are of a light gray silt with inclusions of bits of charcoal and lime, along with pottery, animal bones, stones, obsidian, and shell. The bricks seem relatively uniform in size, but this is difficult to say for sure as most of the wall remained unexcavated. Wall F.2424 is fully bonded at its northern edge with wall F.5051.
TMK and TSK 26.08.2013:
Top 50cm excavated gradualy to get access to less eroded and burrowed layers. Plaster on west fasing wall is sampled (u.15323). Also phytolits layer I sampled (s9). The layer continues into the buttress(f.5063), sugesting contemporanity. Botanists says that phytolits are from reeds or similar plants, based on the length of the silica.
The wall slopes down to the west into the building 105. This suggest that the wall may be earlier than than the buttress nect to it (f. 5063), which may have been built to support the wall and prevent its collapse. But could the slopng postdae the buttress? Also phytolits and pottery suggests cotemporaneous costruction of the features.
TSK 26.08.13:
Simmilar to feature 3303 the feature 2424 was expected to be independent from the buttress f. 5063 and the wall f.3303. The section showed that the mortar and mudbrick lines are clearly connected. Our conclussion was that there must be a double wall beneath said units. The double wall was given the number f.3380.
Unit 16850 was excavated under the assumption of being a part of an independent feature and is treated as such in this sheet. The volume of the mortar unit 16849 was collected toether with this unit.
Consistency: crumbly silty material (2012) / packed, crumbly (2013)
Colour: dark gray to black (2012) / dark brownish grey (2013)
Texture: silty (2012) /sandy silt (2013)
Bedding: massive (2012) / layered (2013)
Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, stones, obsidian, shell, charcoal, lime (2012) /small stones,burnt brick, pottery, animal bones, obsidian flakes (2013)
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, plant roots (2012) / animal burrows, root canals (2013)
Basal Boundary: arbitrary, base of wall not excavated (2012) / flat, f. 3380 (2013)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 865
Total Deposit Volume: 589
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 28
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5
Number of Related Diary Entries: 13
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 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 35 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
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