Unit 2215
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Above Floor,Fill
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: We excavated this white soapy stuff around bull horn because it looked as though it is another bukranion. This unit was excavated to the East wall of Space 86 anticipating that it may be in situ, mounted in the wall, however, no attachment was found. There seem to be some wall mouldings as well in this area. At the tip of the bukranion is a lump of gypsum and a number of small bright green pebbles. When Wendy was asked about this, she said that these green pebbles naturally occur in the clays of this region, leading one excavator, (ie. Mira, who had also seen green pebbles near the white monster) to conclude that they are not special pebbles, but simply part of these natural clays.
Consistency: moderately firm
Colour: 2.5Y 5/2 light greyish brown
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: aggregates (plaster?) abundant 40%, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: carbonates, salts
Basal Boundary: not yet
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 35
Total Deposit Volume: 51
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 30
Unit description: Unit describes a horn core (found in 1997, lifted 1998), which seems to come out of east wall of building 3 (looked set horizontally into the wall in 1997, but they weren't all the way back), and overlies platform feature 170. Horn core is X1. Deposit around horn core = flotation sample. NR 2002: Apparently some other bone was handpicked or dry sieved from this unit. I have recorded this and the sample 2 >4mm flotation, 100% sorted and recorded completely. The dry-sieved material contains a few bits of horn core, not all of which may be from the big one, and a few odd bits of sheep-size scrap that look to be coming from fill, or maybe a tiny sample of midden, since the surface condition is good. Sample 2 is fairly small and also contains a few horn core crumbles, these all most likely from X1. Otherwise it looks more definitively like fill, with mostly small crumbles of scrap, variably worn. There is also a little fish. Last number = 29Figurine 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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