Unit 17683

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: wall 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 9.40 x 0.80 x 0.33 

 

Discussion: This is a solid wall on N-S alignment composed of two courses. The upper course was made of one row of bricks on N-S alignment. From the west some of the bricks were badly truncated. Dimensions of the bricls are as follows (from the South):

1. 0.13 x 0.20 x 0.03
2. 0.80 x 0.30 x 0.07
3. 0.74 x 0.30 x 0.09
4. 0.74 x 0.38 x 0.09
5. 0.40 x 0.60 x 0.09
6. 0.40 x 0.79 x 0.08
7. 0.42 x 0.79 x 0.09
8. 0.31 x 0.78 x 0.07
9. 0.41 x 0.67 x 0.08

The bottom course of the wall contained of two rows of bricks (in the central parts) and one row in the northern and southern part. Dimensions are as follows (from the south):

1. 0.30 x 0.30 x 0.06
2. 0.76 x 0.45 x 0.07
3. 0.62 x 0.34 x 0.08
4. 0.62 x 0.35 x 0.08
5. a (western): 1.04 x 0.24 x 0.08
b (eastern): 0.57 x 0.43 x 0.09
6 . 0.67 x 0.43 x 0.09
7. a (western): 0.90 x 0.40 x 0.09
b: 0.72 x 0.42 x 0.09
8. a 0.50 x 0.40 x 0.09
b. 0.73 x 0.46 x 0.09
9 a : 0.78 x 0.37 x 0.09
b: 0.70 x 0.45 x 0.08
10. 0.74 x 0.30
11. 0.74 x 0.33 x 0.07
12. 0.70 x 0.33 x 0.08
13. 0.70 x 0.33 x 0.08

Yet another solid wall (17800)was recorded. 

 

Recognition: shape, colour 

Definition: wall (NS) in souther part of 12274 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: oranguish, grayish 

Texture: clay, silty clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: bones, shell, pottery, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17684 below: (Click to view the record) 13526, 17679, 17861 

 

Dry sieve volume: 360.75 

Total Deposit Volume: 385 

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) 62

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 429

Features:: (Click to view the record) 2873 (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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