Unit 21593

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: pit 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: gully; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: U. 21593 was recognized as a seperat unit due to its general shape (somewhat circular), its relationship to a feature wall (f. 7649 to the east and we often find pits located along wall boundaries), and most evidently by the concentration of animal bone visible from the top of the pit cut. This small pit may have been created quickly (given its relatively shallow depth) for the quick deposition of some bovine bone which was almost the only material recovered (three small fragmwnts of mini clay balls were also found). Unit 21593 was excavated using a fine trowel, wooden bone pick (as we thought we might encounter a skull or possibly horn cores) and a fine brush. 

Consistency: soft- the soil appears highly organic and extremely soft once broken up 

Colour: dark brown- fill is primarily dark brown with patches of bright orange and burnt blueish grey- indications the soil was heavily burned 

Texture: silty loam- almost a granulated texture (like little balls) of compacted silty loam that easily break up into a fine powder 

Bedding: massive- as is common with fill it’s an even mixture of soil and inclusions 

Inclusions: charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation (rodent burroughs) 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary- amorphous, indicavtive of the pits quick/ hasty creation and single use 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21594 below: (Click to view the record) 21198 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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.

<< BackDownload this Units Data