Unit 1279
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 1 x 70 m NE corner
Discussion: Under this fill the floor has appeared same as south half of Space 110.
1279.X1. Obsidian object
Execution: Hand pick and trowel
Condition: Shade
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10 YR 6/2
Texture: Silt
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Natural aggregates of soil and patches of plaster
Post-depositional Features: Roots, insect holes
Basal Boundary: Constructional, knife edge, prominent, wavy to smooth, inclined
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 120
Total Deposit Volume: 162
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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:: 34
Unit description: Tiny unit with 3 pieces of sheep-size scrap. 1 calcined, others unburnt. Rather weathered. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. Smallish sample of mostly sheep-size taxa, a little large mammal, and a fragment of carnivore (dog?) tooth. Also rather weathered. A little burning, very little digestion. No coherence, looks kicked around. Looks like fill. Last number = 34Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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