Unit 1888
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: hearth
Data Category Information: In Situ: non in-situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 1.00 x 0.80 x 0.02 m
Discussion: Investigation of E half of ash spread / scorching in S of 112. Initially assumed to be overlying floor remnants, was found to be probably multi-phase deposit partially underlying 1891 & 1898. Excavation as 1888 therefore discontinued. See 1896 for uppermost spread in S of 112. Excavation of 1888 resumed after removal of 1898. It was found to overlie collapsed dome of oven, explaining why the deposit is higher at its centre than its periphery. Sample 3 is from resumed excavation.
Execution: trowel
Condition: sunny
Consistency: weak
Colour: 10YR 3/2 (v dark greyish brown)
Texture: silt loam
Bedding: massive (partly lensed)
Inclusions: <2% charcoal (up to 20mm); <2% stones (heat-cracked pebbles in 1 small area)
Post-depositional Features: sparse fine roots
Basal Boundary: sharp, smooth
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 23
Total Deposit Volume: 61
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 17
Unit description: A very small unit from a hearth/ashy spread. Dry sieve contains 3 pieces of burnt bone (how appropriate), burnt at low temperature. All are from sheep-sized animals. Fragment size is largish - certainly these would have been visible if lying in a hearth unswept-up. They are very fresh (unweathered and not battered) and have no cut marks. Sample 2 contains several pieces of burnt bone (identical to the dry sieved material). Again, the bone is in excellent condition, and has no cutmarks nor gnawing. The only diagnostics are a sheep/goat proximal sesamoid and accessory carpal that may or may not be from the same individual. It's all very nice to look at - everything is fresh and pristine and in lovely glowing shades of chocolate and walnut and rich brown. Sample 3 is slightly different. This sample was taken from a lower spit of this unit It is larger that sample 2 and only about half of it is burned. It contains quite a bit of microfauna (three mandibles, three longbone fragments, and a fish dentary - some of this is burnt and some is not). The unburnt bones are battered and weathered, and the unit is much less coherent. Perhaps some material from the next unit down got into this sample during excavation? as it seems intrusive. There is some long bone from a small bird (burned), but all the rest is from sheep-sized or smaller animals, as is everything in this unit The fact that the burned bone is associated with the hearth cannot be fortuitous - this bone must have been around when the hearth was in use or recently extinguished. It seems a lot of bone for the neat Catal people to have coped with. Since it is not battered or weathered, perhaps it was incorporated within the oven structure and therefore not visible? The unit sheet says it might be a 'multi-phase deposit', but the bones seem more likely to have been deposited in a single event (she writes tentatively). Last Number =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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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