Unit 32088

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of shallow pit 

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

Discussion: An in-fill U.32088 was identified within upper part of the cut U.32087 and they both were assigned under the feature number: F.7747 which had been recorded in central part of E-platform F.7734. The mentioned feature was terribly truncated in its major segment by burial cut U.32039 (F.7739) which was performed later on within the platform. As the result of the truncation there was only northern part of the in-fill identified which was represented by irregular crescent, differentiated by distinctive sediments. The presented here filling had peculiar character, due to it consisted EXCLUSIVELLY of backed fragments of a fire installation which sealed completely the top part of the burial. A reason of the selection of particular rubble material in order to pack it into the sepulchlar feature remains unclear. The actual motive standing behind the presented accomplishment is more intriguing if one takes into account location which refers to the raised area of E-Platform (F.7734).
There have been two similar fills recorded so far within Sp.531 (U.32025, U. 32027). Both of them may be regarded as the preparation layers initiating the constructional phase of the new fire installation (F.7737, F.7854). Consequently, packing-like materials consisting mainly of previously destroyed domes and superstructures might be concerned in the term of commemorative deposits.
In that sense Unit 32088 might have represented an commemorative act.
Worth noticing is that the backed fragments of the rubble had been recognized in great amount as elements compound the burial infill U.32040. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: Due to heterogeneous charackter of material: mid-brown, dark-brown, mid-orange 

Texture: silty-clay, clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: rubble of fire instalation - 98% (backed parts of superstructure and dome), charcoals - 1% 

Post-depositional Features: burial cut 32039 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32739 below: (Click to view the record) 32075 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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