Unit 31199
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: 31199 is composed of the room fill below the plaster surface 16932 in building 106. Since it seems to be a "sunken floor", the top levels of the unit were sloping down towards a central point in the room (connected with the plaster on top of buttress f3301, u16999). Its northern limits seem to be the buttress f3301, and maybe a wall in between the buttress and the east wall f3314. The nearest fill is limited by f3314 to the east, f3362 to the south and f3358 to the west.
The fill is very heterogeneous with non-earth materials in it. The finds were concentrated especially in the SW corner and near the eastern wall. A special find was a pair of goat horns, placed in the SW corner, but seemingly "just like this" without… [Editor's note: I cannot read the last word of the previous sentence. But from what I discussed with NMR, I believe they mean this: The goat horns were placed in the corner without additional cutting or other special preparations for their insertion. TMK 27.8.2013.]
To the SE corner, we found three potentially collapsed mudbricks and plaster/mortar, which were assigned separate unit numbers (31230 and 31221, respectively).
When removing u31199, it became clear that the eastern portion of the southern wall (f3362) was slumped. The plaster of this wall is brownish-pink in color. The NW corner contained a fragment of a white plaster floor, but the rest was not present. For more info on the multiplaster structure, see 16932, 31142, 31172…
Consistency: heterogeneous: loose dark fill, hard crumbly concrete-like material, soft plaster patches, loose yellow earth patches, loose orangey patches, loose grey and crumbly material
Colour: dark brown to light grey brown, orangey, yellow patches of earth
Texture: sandy to clayey
Bedding: compound (different materials in random patterns)
Inclusions: small stones, charcoal, phytoliths, clay lumps, marl lumps
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, plants
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 513
Total Deposit Volume: 547
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 28
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 69
Number of Related Diary Entries: 16
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 3 Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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