Unit 1023
Category: layer dug in 1995
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: rubble fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut; Deposition: heterogeneous
Dimensions: 2.15m x 0.6-1.5m x 0.1-0.15m
Discussion: Rubble/midden fill of Ct 15 beneath 1022. Whereas 1022 abuts wall in W section, 1023 runs underneath it. Extent on E side largely determined by slope of pre-excavation surface though in NE runs up to large lumps of mud-brick + top of 1026. Animal disturbance throughout this layer (except possibly NW corner) may have brought in intrusive finds (see 1024) - some of larger stone and clay ball fragments in particular seem to be lying in burrow fills.
Execution: trowel, hand-pick
Condition: warm and sunny
Consistency: compact/hard
Colour: 10YR 4/2 dark greyish brown
Texture: clay loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: 10% burnt/decayed brick (some massive); 5% charcoal frags <2cm; 5% decayed organics; <2% white plaster frags
Post-depositional Features: moderate fine and large roots; animal holes - serious contamination possible
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 380
Total Deposit Volume: 440
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 272
Unit description: F 201 and 204 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014). Medium sized unit. Lots of possible carnivore digestion: this is nearly all on bone fragments of less than 3cm length (and mostly less than 2cm), and hence does not seem to be a product of general burial environment, which would attack greater range of sizes. Identifiables are few; fragmentation high. Actual preservation of bone, however, is good. Colour of bone fairly uniformly mid-brown with a few charred, but many having patches of black staining on both surfaces of bone. The >4mm flot residue bone has been recorded and stored together with rest. For this material, only identifiables recorded, and rest just counted as scrap with count and total weight (did not even break down into size groups for scrap - but it was generally all 1 or 2 cm).Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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