Unit 2047

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 1.8m w-e, 1.1m n-s, 0.15m thick 

 

Discussion: Fill of pit [2050] a quite sterile mixture of lenses. The basal boundary is quite interesting as salt has formed/accumulated showing that it was left at this level for some time, possibly overnight. The salts also showed that a mat x2 had been left on the surface, possibly with a flat stone x1 used to weigh it down 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: warm and bright 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10Y/R 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: occasional charcoal flecks - 2% 

Post-depositional Features: none apparent 

Basal Boundary: sharp, prominent, smooth, inclined to south - 30 degrees. sals present at basal boundary and mat impression 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2059 below: (Click to view the record) 2036 

 

Dry sieve volume: 360 

Total Deposit Volume: 388 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 113

Features:: (Click to view the record) 91 (pit)

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:: 37  Unit description: Quite small unit, but with big pieces, many of them from large animals. Some are rather battered and weathered with the washed-in look of the bone in other levels of the pit, but several are remarkably fresh and must have been buried very quickly; bones seems to be coming in in different ways. Some gnawing on both weathered and fresh bones, almost no burning. Overall impression is of rapid fill, with a little bone included incidentally (too little for deliberate, or at least large scale, dumping of bone debris) from various nearby sources. 4mm flotation sorted 100% and recorded completely. Sample 3 is a small flotation sample, consisting mostly of sheep-size scrap, most of it indeterminate as to body part. There is one distal tibia fragment, and no recognizable cranial, vertebral, or rib fragments. There is some burning, both high and low temperature, and some digestion. Much of the bone seems a bit battered, some of it distinctly worn by water or more likely trample. Much of the bone is encrusted in ash or some other sandy gray material. Last number = 37

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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