Unit 17519

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: North 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: Burnt pea concentration 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 0,66 m x 0,66 m 0,03 m 

 

Discussion: Area of heavily burnt material below ladder scar including seeds and pea, burnt structural timbers and mud brick. Animal bone including a bone pin and a polished stone axe. The layer is the primary burning deposit in the SE corner. The peas may have been in a container or bag - it is possible that what has been interpreted as structural timbers may have been a box. Some material has been left in situ to support the ladder plaster and post. 

 

Recognition: Colour, texture, inclusions 

Definition: Clear 

Execution: Trowel 

Condition: Hot; dry 

Consistency: Loose 

Colour: Dark greyish brown to black 

Texture: Ashy silts 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Frequent peas; moderate bone - including worked bone pin; occasional stone; one stone axe; frequent charcoal lumps 

Post-depositional Features: Ant burrows 

Basal Boundary: Flat - clear onto burnt surface 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17531 below: (Click to view the record) 17513 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume:

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

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: 16 (Opens as a group in a new window) 
Buildings: (Click to view the record)

77 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

336 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

6054 (Ladder emplacement)
 

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:: 7 
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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