Unit 3349

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: infill 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.30 x 0.07 x 0.27 m 

Description: poss VII 

Discussion: (3349) represents a soft ashy deposit to the N of wall F.281, lying above its lower courses for the depth of the 2 courses of F.278 that were bounded to F.281. It was clearly different in composition to the infilling behind F.278 which lay to the W of it. However, it was also severly truncated by animal burrowing, which will have affected its make up. It is difficult to explain it other than as another layer of infilling behind wall F.278 at its E extent. It could also have been the product of the accumulated "dumped" deposits which were in the space to the E of F.281 which had become trapped in a gap to the N of the E end of wall F.278 and the S end of wall F.69. 

Recognition: A softer, grayer, ashier material. 

Definition: Defined by salt encrustation + cracking. 

Execution: Trowel. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: 10 YR 5/3 light olive brown 

Texture: ashy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 5% charcoal (flecks and small pieces), 5% plaster (flecks, small, medium and large pieces), 5% clay, <2% plant, occasional hackberries, occasional tiny pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: severely truncated by animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: clear/distinct/sharp/anthropogenic basal boundar; it overlay the back of the lower courses of F.281, but the surface between the two was completely disturbed by animal burrowing 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3333 below: (Click to view the record) 3161 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII, VIII 

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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