Unit 3191

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: infill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Dimensions: 2 m E-W x 0.80 m N-S, c. 0.15 m thick 

Discussion: This is the infill of space 160. After taking off a thin layer of the fill, the wall at the SE corner was clearly defined and understood that it continued eastwards until the artificial cut of the space. The top layers (part) of the infill contains quite an amount of animal bone, stone and charcoal. As we get down lower, the artefacts start to vanish. There is also quite a lot of big pieces of plaster within the fill. It was stopped excavated before coming to the floors so the basal boundary is arbitrary. The reason is because we came close to floors, for proper sampling and sight of profile the area under (3191) will be divided to two with a bulk area excavated individually.

The wall that was defined was numbered as 404 and used thereon as the souhern limit of excavation, no further excvation took place south of this wall. 

Recognition: Layer in space 160, most probably infill. 

Definition: Defined by wall on the S, W and N, by excavation on the E. 

Execution: Using trowel. 

Condition: Dry and cracked. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: 10 YR 6/3 pale brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 5% salt (small pieces), <2% flecks of charcoal, very few animal bone, some hackberreies 

Post-depositional Features: root and insect activity 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3343, 3344 below: (Click to view the record) 3179 

Dry sieve volume: 1000 

Total Deposit Volume: 1021 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIB 

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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