Unit 2808

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

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

Dimensions: 0.70 m N-S x 0.40 m EW 

Discussion: Two obsidian blanks were found at the interface of the pit fill and overlying floor. Not clear which deposit they are associated with, therefore allocated a cluster.

This deposit is fill within pit containing obsidian cache 2812. This cut was not defined until layer 2805 was partially excavated when it was realised the floors had all been excavated. During excavation it was 90 % certain that this pit was sealed by the earliest floor because of the poor condition of the layers in this building, there is that element of doubt, i.e. that the pit may have been cut from a later floor.
Generally this fill was very compact and again due to general weather, the sides were hard to define due to root activity hence ca 2 % of this fill may be overdug. Some of the fill appears to have been derived from surrounding room infill, i.e. the deposit it cuts 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry and hot 

Consistency: various, moderately firm to firm 

Colour: mixed deposits comprise of discrete pockets and lenses, redeposited clay material appears to be redeposited and scarched, 7.5 YR 5/4 brown, mixed ashy with charcoal 10 YR 5/2 greyish brown, and mixed dense clay with charcoal and plaster 10 YR 4/3 dark greyish brown. 

Texture: clayey silt with ash 

Bedding: massive and mixed 

Inclusions: 3 % < 4 mm carbonised organics, 5 % < 2 cm scorched clay aggregates, 2 % < 4 mm phytoliths, 2 % < 2 cm plaster aggregates, ca 1 % <1 cm natural salt, 1 % pocket of dense phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: mainly rooted 

Basal Boundary: clear anthropogenic in places, others diffuse with shared character with surrounding soil. The 3 basic fills are pretty much equal in proportion but not followable tips or lenses 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2809 below: (Click to view the record) 2810 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2812 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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