Unit 23255

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial,Fill 

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

Description: This the fill of Burial F.8455, in the SW of U.23277, in the Estern edge of the 3 x 4m trench made within it U.23277, in space 620 (See also discussion of U.23227). 

Discussion: This is the fill of burial F.8455. This feature has not been fully excavated; see discussion within F.8455. The fill of this burial seems to extend beyond the current excavation pit and seem to be the same in colour and consistency as the fill of burial F. 8451 (U.23233. The current author suggests that this fill continues beyond and slightly below from where the excavations stopped, and should be considered to be contained within the same pit cut as F.8455. Namely, it is suggested that there is a wider pit cut into midden U.23227 (-see also description for this unit and discussion for F.8455), the edges of which have been identified in the East, but not in the West, or the South, containing fill U.23233 and U.23255. It is suspected that the Northern edges of that cut were truncated from features dug through from above (such as F.8204 and F.8203, and others), and were further lost because of the use of pick axe in the beginning of the excavation of U.23227, for the excavation aims to be achieved. No finds associated with this fill were found within the assumed limits of F.8455. 

Consistency: Firm; compact at places 

Colour: Dark brown 

Texture: Clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: 10% of organic flecks 

Post-depositional Features: Compaction under the layers above 

Basal Boundary: Not reached 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23227, 23256 below: (Click to view the record) 23214 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 142 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

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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