Unit 18983
Category: Layer dug in 2010
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: hearth render
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: Upper render or hearth plaster scorched through use, unexcavated 2010.
2013:
We recognized this unit, because the hearth has already a separate unit number from 2010 (RR excavation). Hearth laid in space 135 in southern area of B. 80. It was formed by human activity and include clay, burnt clay, charcoral and plaster on top of the rough edges. It seems to be heterogeneous. This layer was friable and compact on the edges and sloped to the buttom. We found shell and burnt animal bone.
Consistency: Friable, strong/compact of the edges
Colour: light gray, brown, orange, white (edges)
Texture: ashy clay
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: burnt clay, clay, organic remains/shell
Post-depositional Features: burning
Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/constructional/rough
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 13
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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 Ceramics Data for 2010 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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