Unit 17229

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: grave fill,room fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: After the appearance of bones of skeleton 16835, a patch of greyish earth, pretty clayey, was defined as a probable grave fill. During excavation, however, part of the skull turned out to run under white plastery lumps initially interpreted as a kind of installation (see sketch). We thus re-defined 17229 as part of 16896 (roomfill of space 342). 17229 represents the immediate surroundings of 16835 and is therefore sent to flotation entirely, except an archive sample (S2) and phytolith sample (S3) in order to retrieve the small bones. 

 

Recognition: loose brownish greyish earthy soil 

Definition: clear, but could just be patch in 16896 

Execution: wooden stick, trowel, small brush 

Condition: warm 

Consistency: loose soil, earthy, small burnt mudbricks 

Colour: brown, grey when dry 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: loose, crumbly 

Inclusions: plaster, mudbrick, animal bone, potsherds 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16835 below: (Click to view the record) 16896 equal to:16896?

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 10 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 105

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 342

Features:: (Click to view the record) 5069 (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 2008 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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