Unit 20255

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

 

Area: TPC 

 

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Interpretive Categories: infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 2,05 x 0,24 (m) x 0,54 m 

 

Discussion: This was an infill layer that was situated between two walls F 3923 and F. 3911 and an oven F. 3924. The wall F. 3908 was built on top of it. There were many artefacts found within this layer - worked stones and bones , ground stones, shells. Large pieces of sherds as well as many pieces of bones (sheep, goat, fox, deer, horse, volture?, cattle) as well as horn cores and one human bone. It seemed that all the artefacts were deposited deliberatly as they were clearlyselected. Three layers might be distinguished - the top one with mostly sherds and over 130 astragali; the second one mainly with sherds, worked stones and bones of various animals and the lowest one with ground stones, horn cores and scapulas. Some bone's clusters have been distinguished as separate units. The infill and the units 20276, 20277, 20278, 20279, 20280, 20281, make one feature 3978. The exploration of the infill was stopped at the point when a massive and light grey layer had been reached. The layer might be a floor of the northern space of Building 110 and an oven F. 3924. More can be said about the context of the unit when the walls F. 3923 are removed in 2013 season.

Note on Total deposit volume:
Unknown volume was unsieved.
Calculated from dimensions in 2013. 

 

Recognition: stratigraphic position 

Definition: infill between two walls 

Execution: trowel, brash, wooden stick 

Condition: hot - dry / hot - moisty 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: dark grey, brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, obsidians, stones, shells, clay object 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20252 below: (Click to view the record) 20195 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 266 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 51

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: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 494

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3978

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 2012 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 112

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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