Unit 17510

Category: Cluster    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Stone cluster 

Data Category Information: Location: floors; Material: stone; Basal Spit: bone

Description: See layer (16481) 

Discussion: 26 pieces of stone and some pieces of bone in the cluster. Other than three of them, the rest of them seem like they are broken parts of a big stone. The cracks may be caused by high temperature in the fire and the type of stones are all the same.
X1 stone seems to be a polishing stone. The other 2 which are different than the whole group, rounded but not man made.

Post-ex 2010:
As with several other features in the building this platform was the location for a discrete collection of stone (17510) 26 pieces in all. The type of stone for all except three was the same and all were fire cracked during the burning of the structure. The 23 stone fragments most likely relate to one or more larger stone object(s) destroyed in the intense heat at the seat of the fire. The other stones included a polishing stone and two other fragments with a different morphology from the rest of the cluster, rounded but unworked. The cluster included several fragments of unidentified burnt bone. 

Recognition: Group of stones lying on the floor 

Definition: Clear - next to SW corner platform near S wall 

Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel, brush 

Condition: hot 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17531 below: (Click to view the record) 16481 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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