Unit 22871

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: GDN 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This was an infill layer defined in NE corner of GDN 2015 trench. It was limited by N, E and W walls of the B. 81 annex. This layer was very similar to another infill (u. 22866) in its structure and consisted of massive deposit with some constructional materials (clay, mortar, mudbrick, fragments of plaster). Basal boundary of 22871 was defined arbitrary after four bin structures were identified underneath it. Although the bin infills did not differ in their visual characteristics from 22871, they were explored with different unit number (from W to E: 22895, 22889, 22883, 22888). Three significant bones were discovered on the 22871 basal boundary level: femur, horn core and cattle cranium. They were interpreted as deposited intentionally on the bins' fills. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: various 

Texture: silt 

Bedding: massive with lumps of clay 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, shell, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: rodent activity 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary (bins' infills located below had very similar characteristics) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22883 below: (Click to view the record) 22870 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 1200 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): III 

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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