Unit 30243
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: TPC
Interpretive Categories: pit infill
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Discussion: It is a continuation of the hellenistic pit which was recognized and excavated in the previous year. It was clearly visible on the surface of U.30245 which was brown and orange. The pit was dark brown and grey on the top, consistency of its soil was much softer. The pit was very distinctive and during the exploration its borders were easy to recognize. The infill was homogenous with some clay inclusions and at the bottom in the SW part of the pit clay rubble appeared. There were also some phytoliths and charcoal. From the infill we had three x-finds - very eroded stone axe, a fragment of spindle whorl and a small obsidian tool, worked on both sides. The bottom of the pit was very clear - it was 2-3 cm thick clay layer. Maybe it's a floor of b.110 in which the pit is, but we are not sure.
It turned out that the clay layer was not the bottom. Probably it was connected with clay rubble. It was very distinctive. The bottom of the pit appeared about 10 cm deeper and it was orange soil like the rest of the infill in B.110.
Consistency: soft
Colour: brown
Texture: silty sand, clay inclusions
Bedding: compound
Inclusions: phytoliths, clay, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: distinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 980
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds 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 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 59 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data