Unit 17674

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: mudbrick wall 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 3.40 x 0..25 x 0.53 

 

Discussion: It was a retaining wall built against the norhtern edge of the wall of W-E alignment (17693). It consisted of 3 courses of bricks. The bricks were more grayish and solid than the mudbricks of the wall 17673. The preserved dimensions of the bricks are as follows (from the west):

upper course:

1.0.62 x 0.13 x 0.08
2. 0.59 x 0.15 x 0.03
3. 0.62 x 0.10 x 0.09
4. 0.56 x 0.15 x 0.12
5. 0.62 x 0.14 x 0.10

middle course:

1. 0.74 x 0.21 x .08
2. 0.74 x 0.18 x 0.09
3 0.74 x 0.20 x 0.06
4. 0.72 x 0.20 x 0.06
5. 0.73 x 0.06 x 0.04

lower course:

1. 0.49 x 0.20 x 0.07
2. 0.50 x 0.20 x 0.05
3. 0.27 x 0.26 x 0.04

This retaining wall was younger than the wall 17657. 

 

Recognition: consistency, colour 

Definition: retaining wall 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: gray, yellow 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, bones 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17673 below: (Click to view the record) 17657 

 

Dry sieve volume: 33 

Total Deposit Volume: 55 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 74

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 430

Features:: (Click to view the record) 2885 (wall)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

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: No

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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