Unit 22607

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: mortar 

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

Description: This unit is nearly impossible to distinguish from the u. 22603, the mud brick of wall F. 7708, due to the degree of burning in sp. 504. Both are loose and crumble at the touch.

This is inaccurate - the firing turned the mortar rock-hard while turning the organic-rich mudbrick loose and fragile. Unsure what PC was considering mortar in 2015. (KK 2017) 

Discussion: This unit represents the presumed mortar that was originally applied in the construction of wall F. 7708, though the conflagration of B. 131 damaged the wall so it cannot at this stage be distinctly identified as separate from the mud brick.

The mortar (22607) exists only in the northern part and the smaller part in the southern part of the wall F.7708. In the middle of the wall, the mortar is absent because the wall F.7708 is truncated and remained only one course of mudbrick. (AFK 2017).

The mortar is in fact distinct - two rock-hard fired clay coarses in the middle of the tall-standing northern part of the wall. Interestingly, there is no mortar between the bottom 3 coarses of mudbrick. Mortar (22607) was cut into in its lowest course on the E side to create a niche (F.8372, cut U.23112) (KK 2017) 

Consistency: compact - fired clay, very hard 

Colour: reddesh brown 

Texture: fired clay 

Bedding: coarses 

Inclusions: -- 

Post-depositional Features: fired hard in building-closure fire 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 23112 equal to: (Click to view the record) 22603 

Total Deposit Volume: 22 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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