Unit 2200
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: building fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 2.0 x 2.0 m
Discussion: This was an arbitrary 5 cm spit. The matrix consists of a combination of the backfill dirt from the 1994 scrape and the deliberate fill of the room with burnt clay and brick and other fragments of architectural materials. It is possible that this represents the area between 2 floors and that the upper floor has been lost to erosion. The eastern edge of the unit was not excavated due to the proximity of the plaster of the east wall of space 86.
Condition: mainly dry with patches of moist soil
Consistency: weak
Colour: 10YR6/2
Texture: silty loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: small amounts of bone and clay inclsuions (<2%), very little charcoal (<1%); roots fairly common (<10%)
Post-depositional Features: roots are fairly common throughout the unit
Basal Boundary: N/A
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 186.5
Total Deposit Volume: 214
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
Settlement Phase:
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 103
Unit description: It is from a building fill from the space 86. This is from near the surface and is a rather insecure context. Medium unit, highly fragmented. High predominance of sheep-size animal remains, few pieces from large. Ca. 10% burnt (black carbonised or gray calcined). Among scraps there are long bone splinters, rib splinters, teeth fragments, pieces of spongeous bone (cooking?). ID's nearly all Ovis/Capra, one young. One massively pathological specimen; ulna? Surface condition is rather degraded, no doubt from being near the surface. This probably also accounts for some of the fragmentation, although it was probably pretty broken up to begin with. Looks like fill, derived from daily post-consumption discard. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted; only diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. Moderate size sample, similar in composition to dry sieved: groddy bits ranging up to 4-5 cm. A couple of fish and one microfaunal specimen pulled. Last number = 103Figurine 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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