Unit 8651

Category: layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: mortar 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.40 x 0.06-10 m 

 

Discussion: We removed these two layers of mortar between lowermost courses of bricks and came down to the very bottom course.
Mortar is very likely the same that was used in the other walls of space 201 at that height.
N, S and E wall have this type of mortar as two layers, only the W wall has that lense of midden deposit on top of the very bottom course of bricks.
Upper mortar layer of the two was very thick, up to 10 cm - which is thicker than the brick, where as going towards eastern and westernwall it goes thinner - up to 6 cm.
Possibly levelling the depression in the middle or designed to bear more pressure in the middle section of wall 174. 

 

Recognition: colour, texture, between bricks 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: brown, gray, black mottled 

Texture: greasy, ashy clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal abundant, animal bones, gypsum, salts 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole 

Basal Boundary: constructional, smooth 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8639 

 

Dry sieve volume: 150 

Total Deposit Volume: 181 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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: No

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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