Unit 12226

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

 

Area: TP 

 

Related Photo (Click to view larger version in new window)  

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 1.40 x 0.85 x 0,10 

 

Discussion: This is a fragment of a burial infill cut into two neolithic walls (units 11583 and 12229) in western section of the west extension trench.

Western part of the unit was truncated by the trench dug by Mellaart expedition in the 1960s. Upper part of the burial was destroyed during earlier excavations. 

 

Recognition: shape, consistency 

Definition: burial infill 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot, windy 

Consistency: soft/ friable 

Colour: mid brown 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, human bones 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by Mellaart trench 

Basal Boundary: flat 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12228 below:Mellaart heap

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 405

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1908 (burial)

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 2005 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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