Unit 8641

Category: layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: mortar 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.4 x 8 m 

 

Discussion: The unit comprises the top 3-5 layers of mortar in the northern wall of building 3. It is typical mortar with inclusions, except for the layer above the 9th row of bricks (counted from the bottom), which was chunkier and with higher percentage of clay (S3). There are two x-finds (unit 8642) - pottery fragments.
S3 - it is taken from the 3rd layer of mortar from the highest part of the wall. It is more clayey than the regular "top" mortar, which is the reason it was collected as a sample (the rest of the soil was send to the dry sieve as part of unit 8642).
S4 - midden mortar (or post midden) underneath the last brick of the bottom and on top of an earlier wall. 

 

Recognition: colour, consistency, position 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: moist due to the leakage of the tent 

Consistency: strong 

Colour: see drowing 

Texture: silty clay with inclusions 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: stone, bone, pottery, fragmented clay balls 

Post-depositional Features: salts, plant roots, animal holes 

Basal Boundary: flat, constructional 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): equal to: (Click to view the record) 8642 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 201

Features:: (Click to view the record) 174 (House wall)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2003 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 3

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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