Unit 4340 

Category: layer    dug in 1999
 
Area: South 
 
Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window
 
Interpretive Categories: infill 
 
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
 
Dimensions: 4.90m by 30-50cm by 7-35cm deep 
 
Discussion: This infill was very mixed, in some places it looked like brick + in some places like floor, but there were bits of oven debris in it + other inclusions.
This infill layer ended at the base of wall 401 and lay on darker, more compact infill 4321 which ran under wall 401
Slopes down do that much deeper at south end. Basal boundary is less clear towards south 
 
Recognition: grey mixed deposit in wall 401, also light brown - very patchy + mixed 
Definition: north - north wall shrine 10 level VII east - west wall shrine 10 B.6 south - to section west - wall 401 
Execution: trowel 
Condition: dry 
Consistency: soft 
Colour: grey with small patches of brown, white speckles 
Texture: soft + silty 
Bedding: massive 
Inclusions: fairly large stones, shell, brick, charcoal, all <2% + quite small, quite a lot of plaster 
Post-depositional Features: a lot of roots 
Basal Boundary: uneven, prominent contrast, wavy, slopes down to south 
 
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
above: (Click to view the record) 4360 
below: (Click to view the record) 3140 
equal to: (Click to view the record) 4351, 4350 
 
Dry sieve volume: 167 
Total Deposit Volume: 194 
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
 
 
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): SOUTH.?M 
Buildings: (Click to view the record)

24 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

180 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

401 (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: Archive,Building Material,Clay,Eggshell,Faunal,obsidian,shell,Stone 
 
Lab Team Data

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ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: Yes
Count of records:: 1 
Ceramic Records: Yes
Ceramics GID List: (Click to view the record)

4340.S1, 4340.S2 
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 6 
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: No
Figurine Records: No
GroundStone Records: No
Heavy Residue Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 
Microfaunal Records: No
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Phytolith Sample: No
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