Unit 31578

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of pit in the NW corner 

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

Discussion: An infill U.31578 had been recorded as aggregated sediments accumulated within the cut U.31579 in the NW corner of Sp.531. The fill constituted a distinctive deposit that differed from the surrounded layers, which composed mainly of the platform plasters, make-ups and a preparation layer in upper part of the unit. Consequently, it was also easy to define its lower segment due to diverse composition of the infill comparing encircled sediments which probably may be regarded as a room-fill that seal predecessor of B.132.
The nature of sediments recorded within the cut imply that the hollow pit had been sealed by different materials that mostly may be regarded as fragmented components of underlying room-fill (of a predecessor). Consequently, the evidenced fragments of mortar and bricks comprised of smaller pieces than those evidenced all around the edge of the cut 31579. Also they were immersed in more sandy-silt sediment. Worth noticing is that in the bottom part of the infill 31578 there were bigger elements registered with clearly higher proportion of plastered components (wall-plaster, floor/platform-plaster). The circumstance that they covered totally the base of the pit allowed to distinguish difference between the enclosed underlying deposit. Accordingly, taking out the rest of the infill remaining within all ofthe undulations allocated 1 semi-circular and, 2 circular depressions that most plausibly should be regarded as lower parts of postholes. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-brown, mid-orange, dark-grey 

Texture: silt, silty-clay, clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: orange clay mortar - 15%, fragments of plastered floor - 8%, fragments of fire instalation bases - 5% 

Post-depositional Features: animal borrowing in NW corner at the bottom of unit 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31579 below: (Click to view the record) 21670 

Dry sieve volume: 225 

Total Deposit Volume: 462 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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