Unit 1067

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: consolidation backfill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 1.60m n/s 1.45m e/w 

 

Discussion: Part of consolidation backfill possibly to counteract the effects of subsidence due to building over /on a midden. 

 

Execution: mattock trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 2.5y 4/1 dark grey 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound layered 20mm between similar materials 

Inclusions: <2% pottery, bone, clay balls, burnt clay brick, daub, obsidian, bone 

Post-depositional Features: cut at south by1090 

Basal Boundary: dumped, sharp, distinct, wavy 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1072 below: (Click to view the record) 1051, 1598 

 

Dry sieve volume: 410 

Total Deposit Volume: 474 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 105

Features:: none

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

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 105  Unit description: This is a medium midden unit made up of all dry sieved material. The bone is a mixture of small fragments and larger chunks of bone. Species include cattle, sheep/goat, horse ,pig and dog. Body part distribution includes long bones but there are a substancial amount of teeth and shaft and rib fragments. There is a small amount (less than 10%) of burning and gnawing and there also signs of digestion with sheep phalanges appearing digested. The surface condition is overall fairly normal. Dog remains include a metacarpal and mandible, pig consisted of teeth, an horse was made up of teeth. Scrap weight:220g

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 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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