Unit 20679

Category: Layer    dug in

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: mortar 

 

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

 

Discussion: 2013: Mortar used to join bricks within the wall F.3626 varied in its thickness depending on desire of builders who tried to keep horizontal line of the courses. Additional distinctiveness was recorded in the wide range of colour of the mortar and supplementary usage of clay building material within the paste. In the eastern part of the wall within mortar there was a single antler (X1) found. It appeared that described material (20679) played a significant role at the initial stage of the wall construction, due to it was used as a paste to fix together broken bricks dumped into a foundation cut.

2014 EXCAVATION SEASON
- The execution of the northern wall of B.108 (F.3626) allowed to analyze the western part of the mentioned feature (due to its partial excavation, carried out in 2013). In the course of the research activities in 2014 there were 11 courses of mortar uncovered within the wall that preserved to 1.20m height. The mud-brick structure showed the evidence of the re-used bricks exploitation during construction phase. The latter influenced significantly on the width and thickness of the mortar that joint the bricks (U.20678) within the Feature. The thickness varied between 3cm to 23cm. Undertaken research brought supplementary amount of the deposit (496 liters), that has been added to the previous achieved in 2013. 

 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid-grey, dark-grey 

Texture: silty-sand, silty-clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: white inclusions, charcoal, clay building material 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowings 

Basal Boundary: sharp, anthropogenic, between bricks 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22028 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20678 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 867 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

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) 108

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 84, 501

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3626 (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 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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