Unit 17564

Category: Cluster    dug in 2009

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Horn cores and skull 

 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Material: animal bone; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: Horn core

 

Description: Cattle horn core one of two pairs used in the construction of platform F.6051 as decorative elements. Located in the northern pedistals western side. 

 

Discussion: Horn cores and skull, just top. Wen excavating the compact shaped clay core (19095), it became clear that the horns were not single units, but were still attached to the skull. Before it was inserted into he clay core, the back of the skull was cut off at the upper neck, and it seems to have been cut off around the eye sockets. It actually leaks down onto the layer in front, onto an earlier phase. Probably it was the skull of a yound adult (Louise Martin). Two numbers were originally taken out in 2008 when it was believed to be two separate horn cores. 

 

Recognition: skull and horns 

Definition: clear 

Condition: hot and dry 

Consistency: solid but fragmented 

Colour: white, grey, red 

Texture: bone and horn 

Bedding: this and down, see drawing and discussion 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:NFEbelow: (Click to view the record) 19095 equal to: (Click to view the record) 17565 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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Buildings: (Click to view the record) 77

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 336

Features:: (Click to view the record) 8135 (podium/pedestal)

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 2009 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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