Unit 1853

Category: Cluster    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: bones in bin 

 

Data Category Information: Location: midden; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition

 

Dimensions: 0.30m x 0.20m 0.15m thick 

 

Description: bone cluster appears to be associated/embedded in plaster 

 

Discussion: bone cluster found near North wall at East corner of 'Bin'. Rissa recognised deer scapula and other animals during on-site inspection. Some of the bones are closely associated with, or embedded in white thick plaster - no layering visible in plaster. 

 

Execution: trowel leaf 

Condition: completely dull 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:**below: (Click to view the record) 1844 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1845 

 

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 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 2

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 116

Features:: (Click to view the record) 72 (wall)

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

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 29  Unit description: This is a cluster in a 'bin' on the north of B. 2. I don't recall a bin there, so it may have been the niche or something. It offhand looks as though this might be part of the abandonment spread in the building. It has some miscellaneous bits that are probably coming from the fill, and some big cattle chunks, including two scapulae (one very young), and a distal femur. Also a couple of nice sheep/goat bits and a red deer tibia fragment. This doesn't really look like placed items (the scapulae are big pieces, but fairly fragmentary. It does tend to the meaty bits and seems likely to be feasting remains, at least in part. Some of the bigger bits have been gnawed, so were exposed to dogs for a while, either before or after they were deposited here. There is no flotation sample, so we are surely missing small pieces. Nevertheless, this is heavily weighted to large mammals, in fact cattle. Surfaces are mostly a bit degraded, suggesting that it may have lain exposed for a while.

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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