Unit 8864

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: midden layer 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

Dimensions: N-S ca. 2 m; E-W- ca. 4.5 m 

Discussion: Unit 8864 comprises the next midden layer, ca. 25 cm thick and consists of many thin layers. They are slightly slanting down from N to S. The layers vary in colour - black, brown, yellowish, yellowish-brown. There are pieces of mudbricks dumped in the midden. A thin layer of construction rubble was excavated just beside the S wall of sp. 226 (the repaired one). It was ca. 40 cm wide (N-S) and ca. 1.50 m long (E-W). It could has been used as a consolidation for the wall.
The layer yielded plenty of animal bones, obsidian chips and tools, several flint chips and tools, stones, charcoal, bone tools - awls, two fine needles, clay beads and a clay stamp seal with geometric design.
X1 stamp seal is envanter 4.
Concentrations of phytoliths and coprolits were located and samples were taken (S3 and S4).
As we excavated that layer we found out that at a later stage of the existence of sp. 226, most probably a ''street'' or a ''passage way'' existed in its S part, W-E oriented, alongside the southern ''triple'' wall. It could be seen in the W section of the excavated area. The ''street' is 1.85 m wide.
In the E part of the unit the texture of the layer changes - from ashy and clayey layers (to the W) to ashy and crumbly bricky stuff.
Sample 5 - taken from the W section of sp. 226.The story goes: further excavation showed that sp. 226 is divided into 2 areas - S area or ''the street'', filled with midden layers and N one - with layers of ''middeny packing'' of some sort and construction rubble on top of it; all that was most probably a levelling layer. This is a ''cul de sac'' of sp. 226 and might have been an activity area of some sort.
Sample 5 was taken upon the decision to remove brick fragments, which were abutting the W wall of sp. 226 and with them the ''middeny packing'' deposits. ''trapped'' underneath. However the decision was abandoned in view of loss of the W section of sp. 226 (only W wall and midden layers to the S would be visible).
Feed-back from the priority tour: the layer within the unit is to be described as closest to the typical midden; there are no traces of trampling. There is more taxa of animals than in U.8859 (which looked as single event/daily damping). The pottery sherds indicate level 5 (holemouth jurs, lugs). 

Recognition: gray-blakish ashy layer with lots of charcoal 

Definition: clear (except when layers disappear, brake interlock) 

Execution: hoe, trowel 

Condition: dry to moist 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: gray-blakish with black bits of charcoal, orang-red - pieces of mudbricks and construction rubble 

Texture: ashy silty clay with lots of organic material 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: animal bones, obsidian chips, pottery sherds, charcoal, flint chips 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, plant roots 

Basal Boundary: irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8882, 8863 below: (Click to view the record) 8862 

Dry sieve volume: 3120 

Total Deposit Volume: 3163 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 23

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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