Unit 16253

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Discussion: midden deposit, respects building 44's southern wall. To the west the deposit the area was excavated in spits in 2007 - unit is roughly equivalent to 14572 

 

Recognition: colour, inclusions, laminations, consistency 

Definition: clear 

Execution: mattock 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: loose to moderate 

Colour: mid brown with black laminations 

Texture: sandy ashy silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: frequent bone, freq charcoal fragments and flecks, occ-mod plaster, occ obsidian, occ-mod stone, occ pottery 

Post-depositional Features: partially excavated by Ruth 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16258 below: (Click to view the record) 14559 equal to:14572?

 

Dry sieve volume: 540 

Total Deposit Volume: 561 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19

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

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 129

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

Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 737

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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