Unit 23139

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Redeposit midden 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous

Description: Abrupt, prominent, smooth 

Discussion: This layer correspond to latest fill of the pit U23147 and was exposed directly below the packing/levelling layers for the construction of the B-131 (U23110=23090=23084 and 23131).
The layer was pretty soft and light grey, and for the characteristics and composition at the begging we thought that was midden. This detail made difficult to see the edges of the cut U23147 in the eastern part of the building from the very top. It was after remove the layer U23139 that the edges of the pit where clearly visible in plant, and in the section exposed in the southern part of the building.
So this layer looks like a redeposit midden placed inside the pit U23147 with the intention of seal the pit. The layer seems that was thought from the east because as the rest of the deposits in the pit was clearly sloping in direction E-W. Directly above this layer we documented all the packing/levelling layers for the construction of B-131 and also the bone deposit U23136-23137.

We want to notice that this layer had been partially excavated properly only in the southern part of the building. In the northern part, the rest of the remains had been removed with the arbitrary layer U23155. 

Consistency: Loose to compact 

Colour: Light grey 

Texture: Clay and silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal, natural stones 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrow 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23142 below: (Click to view the record) 23110 equal to: (Click to view the record) 23145 

Dry sieve volume: 2745 

Total Deposit Volume: 2780 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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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