Unit 4959

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: fill 

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

Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm 

Discussion: This context number has been given to a mixed fill. It has collapsed building material like mb, plaster etc. The plasters which surround it are not going down so they are just fallen pieces. Just the SW corner of F521 is still continuing The fill has got a slope towards south. Comperatively charcoaly layer is going under it. 

Recognition: west of F521 and SW corner of sp 178. It has been surrounded by sloping plastered things in the N and East. 

Definition: Colour and texture 

Execution: trowel and hand pick 

Condition: damp 

Consistency: soft and friable 

Colour: mottled :Gray, beige, light-mid brown yelllow, 

Texture: clayey silt; silt is dominant 

Bedding: massive discontinuescompund lqyet 

Inclusions: charcoal <%2, <0.5 cm., mb and plaster pýeces <%5 mb >5 cm., >5% 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: slopy 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4982 below: (Click to view the record) 4770 

Dry sieve volume: 70 

Total Deposit Volume: 96 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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