Unit 17258

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: wall material 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: Unit 17258 is the [unreadable], lower, and smaller those of buttress F.5052. There is an inner line of plaster defining the outer edge of the older buttress. The buttress is 10cm within the outline of F.5052, similar to F.5057 and its inner buttress. Between the two plaster lines (of inner and outer buttress) is a line (ca. 5cm thick) of construction fill and artifacts. In the center of the southern edge is a small cluster of painted plaster and pottery. In the NE corner where the buttress meets the walls 3335, there is an area of burned clay on the floor, as well as possibly burned floor. The inside plaster line connects to the lower floor (of the two known floors). The buttress 5052 was abutted to wall F.3335, meaning it eas constructed as a later phase. Both the early and latter phases of buttress 5052 appear to be made of the same material and both used a rammed earth (packed fill) construction technique. The fill contains Neolithic and Chalcolithic material, possibly collected from erosion wash between the mounds. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark grey brown 

Texture: clay silt 

Bedding: heterogeneous construction fill 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, shell, stone, obsidian, worked bone 

Post-depositional Features: rodent burrow 

Basal Boundary: flat, floor of B.98 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 16886 

Dry sieve volume: 680 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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