Unit 18593

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burnt collapse B79 (north end) 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 2.20m x 1.40m 

 

Discussion: Burnt brick rubble collapse filling B.79 appears to directly overlay floors. Fine and more compact layer than overlaying deposit (18579).

Top of this deposit coresponds to top of blackening of plaster- This deposit is also the first with charcoal in it. This layer appears to have put out the fire enough to create reducing atmoshpere and preserve charcoal/ timber. 

 

Recognition: compaction 

Definition: clear 

Execution: handmattock and trowel 

Condition: dusty 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: red brown 

Texture: fine silt, mudbrick crush 

Bedding: composite 

Inclusions: occational shell, animal bone obsidian, stone and charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: burnt 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18595 below: (Click to view the record) 18579 

 

Dry sieve volume: 810 

Total Deposit Volume: 834 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 79

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 134

Features:: none

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 2009 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 17

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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