Unit 3172

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Brick 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.39 x 0.32 x 0.211 m 

Discussion: 3172 represents the brick material of wall 278. The upper course consisted of a singe squarish brick at the Westen end of the East-West running wall which seemed to have been placed in between 2 courses of wall 58. The course of 278 beneath this was a far longer brick, streching across most of the lenght of what was left of the wall. At the stage that the excavation of the samples for 3172 were excavated, it was difficult to tell how this wall filled into the wider scheme of the adjacent walls or how it had come to be left as it was on excavation. 

Recognition: Sandy material in rectangular, brick-like form. 

Definition: Clearly different from the mixed material to its South, the bricks of 58 to the West and those of 69 and 88 to the North. 

Execution: Trowel and pick. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: Firm. 

Colour: 10YR 6/4 light yellowish brown. 

Texture: Sandy silt loam. 

Bedding: Massive (and homogeneous). 

Inclusions: 2% plaster flecks; 2% clay flecks; 5% plaster (flecks, small and medium sized lumps); occasional pebbles. 

Post-depositional Features: Salt encrustation. 

Basal Boundary: A clear sharp basal boundary, but it was sometimes hard to separate from the mortar material 3333 which was closely bounded to it. The surface between these was generally smooth and level. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3318, 3346 below: (Click to view the record) 3345, 3348 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3337, 3333 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 26 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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