Unit 16980
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: Roomfill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS: 139 cm; EW: 211 cm; Depth: 35 cm
Discussion: After the decision to stop u. 16973 at the ash layer, we included the latter into the new unit - 16980. The ash layer was not uniform, but it was found in the fill and in the W, N, and S walls. Immediately below (and withing) this ash layer there was a large cluster of various finds which continued but diminished in density all the way to the floor (the bottom of this unit). The ash layer was more persistent in the W wall and continued underneath the large potsherd (turned upside down). The largest lens of ash was found in the center of the unit. The cluster of the finds sloped down gradually from the SW corner due to a number of materials other than soil that increased the density and compactness of the underlying cluster base. The most important observation that came out of the excavation of this unit is that below the ash layer, artifacts are found within the supposed walls of the building 98. This indicates that there is probably a disjuncture between the walls and the floor, which will be verified after we remove the walls and the buttresses.
There is a phytolith sample from this unit S3 from an ashy deposit around pottery (PLR)
Recognition: between an ash layer and the floor of sp. 341
Definition: clear, different artifact quantities
Execution: Small pick, trowel, small wooden scraper
Condition: hot under shelter
Consistency: mostly loose soil w/ pockets of ash, clay, and plaster chunks
Colour: grayish brown soil w/ yellow brown clay, gray and black ash
Texture: sandy silt with lumps of hard clay and loose ash
Bedding: layered with ash and clay lenses
Inclusions: pottery, bone, horns, groundstone, ash, clay, plaster
Post-depositional Features: animal and insect burrows
Basal Boundary: mostly flat (building floor) w/ some waves
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 15
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 29
Number of Related Diary Entries: 9
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 118 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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