Unit 32006

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of nicheF.7855 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: niche; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Infill U.32006 had been recorded within intra-wall part of the Niche F.7855 which resemblanced a back-side of doomed oven. Judging by the on-site observations it is clear that before inhabitants arranged the Niche in presented spot there was an oven placed in the wall. Hence, the domed-like part of the niche was used easily for new purposes.
The deposit covered all the intra-wall sector of the mentioned niche which was incised in the S-wall (F.3679) of B.132. One may state that the infill composed of the same material as had been evidenced in 2015 while exploration of the room-fills U.21654 and 21670 which sealed whole the interior of Sp.531.The deposit U.32006 had been left arbitrarily last year to prevent the domed-construction and the wall F.3679 against falling down during winter season. The excavation of the unit was conducted in order to identify the whole extent of the niche as a one of the youngest furniture evidenced within the Sp.531. The infill comprised of broken fragments of grey bricks, fragments of plastered elements which were immersed within sandy-silt sediment, that most plausibly accumulated in the presented spot during the process of sealing the entire main room of B.132. It appeared that below the described infill there was a small fragment of dirty floor-like layer (U.32008) which might be evidence of a nature of activities that took place in the niche. Recorded materials and composition of the infill U.32006 imply that domed part of the niche was left to be covered afterwards by the room-fill. One must be emphasized here that there was no any blocking within the dome which again indicate using the feature till the very end of occupation phase of the room. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-brown, mid-grey (sandy-silt), mid-white (fallen plasters), dark-grey (broken bricks) 

Texture: sandy-silt with diverse clay - elements 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: 8% - broken bricks, 5%- fallen plasters, 5% - charcoals, 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct, plastered surface (U.31568) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31568 below: (Click to view the record) 31568 equal to: (Click to view the record) 32001 

Dry sieve volume: 63 

Total Deposit Volume: 93 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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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