Unit 1708
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit
Dimensions: 1.30 x 1.25 x 0.20 m
Discussion: Digging pit (Feature 101). Uniform, loose deposit, abundant traces of plaster.
Execution: Pick and trowel
Condition: Sunny
Consistency: Very weak
Colour: 2.5 Y 5/2 Grayish brown
Texture: Silt loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Pieces of plaster 25-30%, Charcoal 2%, Clay frags 5%, Pottery 15%, Bone 20%, modern roots 20%
Post-depositional Features: Disturbed by a large animal burrow at the bottom of the pit
Basal Boundary: Sharp, anthropogenic
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 180
Total Deposit Volume: 200
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 6
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
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:: 124
Unit description: Medium size unit from top of Neolithic pit (F. 101) in Building 10. Some contamination (late sherds), but also sherds that join with lower units. Quite weathered, probably because near surface. Not much burning. Cattle, sheep/goat, pig are present, with a fairly even body part distribution. Lots of sheep/goat metapodials, only a few cattle foot bones, in contrast to lower units in pit. Fair amount of gnawing, and several cylinders that look as though they were created by marrow fracture at one end, dog gnaw at the other. Ergo, dogs working over the assemblage after the people. Last number = 123 ***2010: Note, now considered post-Chalcolithic.***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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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