Unit 6277

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This unit consists of reddish brown and grey layers and goes underneath the East wall..
2 layers are taken in order to come to the same level as the platform.
Unit will be continued as we dig the platform. It is not very clear whether it is brick and mortar or another feature and what it is doing in this place.
During the excavation of 6277 S12 layer, 2 bone tools and an animal tooth encountered. Soil is a kind of fill soil, there is no consistency but it is not midden soil.

12/08/00:
remove pit fill from under East wall. Bottom small and we can see the line of East wall plaster. Big blobs of plaster left in. sample is further into East wall-can't see baulk yet-for oven? 

Recognition: bricky material, red and grey layer. Differences in colour and texture. 

Definition: very clear, up to edge of the east wall 

Execution: trowel. 

Condition: soft 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: reddish brown and grey with white salt particules 

Texture: clay, sticky 

Bedding: layers of red bricky soil and mortar like grey soil. 

Inclusions: phytolith, salt 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6619 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 14

Number of X-Finds 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:

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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