Unit 20269

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: heterogeneous natural deposit 

Data Category Information: Deposition: buried soil

Dimensions: 4 m x 6.5 m x 0.09 m 

Discussion: This is a layer of slowly, naturally deposited heterogeneous layers. It contained a wide range of artifacts from a number of periods, including pottery tentatively dated as Bronze Age and some copper, as well as a stone bead. Removing this layer revealed the total extent of u. 20267 and u. 20221, two layers of redeposited mud-brick and construction material, as well as some pits in the NW corner-- along with the full reach of the ash and burning characterizing u. 20266 (which must have been the result of a fire postdating the Neolithic, since the ashy fill abuts our Roman/Hellenistic wall (f. 3951) 

Recognition: continued fill deposit, bounded by features 

Definition: bounded by clearly Neolithic features (burials and walls) and extent of trench 

Execution: hoe, pick, trowel, no sieving 

Condition: cool, shaded 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: light greyish brown, with reddish and darker patches 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: ash, pottery, charcoal, stone bead, obsidian, bone, copper 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: burnt layer to east, appearance of Neolithic features to West 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20700, 20701, 20265, 20704 below: (Click to view the record) 20156, 20223 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 2013 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): 0 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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