Unit 20920
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: inter-wall infill,packing material
Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: The inter-wall infill was placed between the Eastern wall of B 108 (F.3627) and the Western wall of B. 113 (F.3647). The unit was exposed after execution of F.3627. Relatively thinner in section/profile, but also wider in plan than others infills, unit 20920 represents actually just the upper part of the bigger inter-wall infill comprised of 2 more layers below. It was sitting on a single horizontal course of varied bricks that seems to be a kind of wedge performed probably to prevent slumping of the wall F.3627 Eastward (see also unit sheet 20937). And under the bricks there is a 3rd sequence of the fill assigned as U.20939. The upper part of the infill (namely 20920) was complex in nature. There were a number of crushed bricks and smashed mortar. The most significant for the unit were the wide spectrum and quantity of artifacts along with two horn cores (X1 and X4) probably from the same bucranium installation set directly on the surface of bricks (20937) probably as a kind of special deposit.
Consistency: soft/friable
Colour: mid-grey, mid-yell-ow
Texture: clay loam, silty-clay, silty-sand
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: clay building material, stones crushed bricks
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: clear, distinct -horizontal course of bricks
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 267
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ?
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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