Unit 20487

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden arbitrary layer 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 2,6m NS x 2,6m EW x 0.16m thick 

Discussion: This is another arbitrary layer in the midden, space 489 below building 108. The layer was clearly laminated (brown ashy and blackish layers) in the southern part. In the northern area it was more clayish with an abundance of large sized burnt clay inclusions. Also ashy grey and black lenses were found within this layer. About 0.5 m from the southern wall there was a thin layer with brown pure sand (up to 0.02m thick and with a diameter of c. 0.3m). This was the only sand layer found in the midden so far. The arbitrary midden layer contained lots of artefacts and organic inclusions. 

Recognition: Arbitrary layer of midden, different colour than around. 

Definition: Up to walls in S and N, up to section wall in W, up to cut in E. 

Execution: trowel, hoe, mattock 

Condition: dry and hot, no wind 

Consistency: loose in the S and firm in the N 

Colour: mixed layered light yellow, light grey, blackish, and light brown lenses 

Texture: clay, silty clay, ash, sand 

Bedding: Thin layers in the south part, more mixed in the northen part 

Inclusions: abundancy of charcoal and ashy inclusions in all layers except the clay layer (which contained burnt clay inclusions of sizes up to 12cm, as well as medium sized burnt oven pieces). All layers contained lots of artefacts (obsidian, worked bone and clay objects) and organic inclusions (bones and hackberry) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, plant root 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19564 below: (Click to view the record) 20472 

Dry sieve volume: 1030 

Total Deposit Volume: 1050 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 12

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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