Unit 23134

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: collapsed wall 

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

Description: Brick & mortar - exca. as one unit but sampled separately. 

Discussion: Collapsed wall, laying horizontally & covering most of the W side of Sp. 634 -> Sp.504 during the transition between buildings. Presumably represents the upper courses of the western wall of B.139. A few scraps of coarse 'side room' style plaster were noted on the bottom side (originally internal face). Several courses of brick and mortar have maintained structural cohesion despite the fall, particularly in the westernmost (ie originally lowest) part of the wall. This suggests that the demolition of the wall was neither a slow process of decay nor a violent toppling, but a controlled event; chronologically, all this recommends that we situate the collapse more closely in time to the initial closure of B.139 than to the likely period of open-area use (see US 23084 & 23027) and construction of B.131 that followed. 

Consistency: Strong/Compact 

Colour: Light orange brick, light grey mortar 

Texture: Brick: silty clay with organic stabilizers. Mortar: silty clay. 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Brick: impressions of organic stabilizers. Mortar: very few (<2%) charcoal/organic and salt flecks 

Post-depositional Features: Salts 

Basal Boundary: Abrupt 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23146 below: (Click to view the record) 23084, 23027 

Total Deposit Volume: 528 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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