Unit 3076
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 1.05m W to E, 0.7m N to S, 0.71m deep
Description: methodology same as /copied from 3075
Discussion: Lower fill of pit cut (3070)
Recognition: darker and slightly looser than surrounding infilling
Definition: defined by finding pit edges on way down where underlying stratigraphy shows through
Execution: Mattock and trowel as (3069) except southern half
Condition: normal
Consistency: firm
Colour: 10YR 4/3 brown
Texture: clay
Bedding: massive and lumpy
Inclusions: large brick fragments 50% large plaster fragments 20%
Post-depositional Features: some root/ animal bioturation
Basal Boundary: distinct, smooth, flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 180
Total Deposit Volume: 217
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
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:: 38
Unit description: A small unit, with variable but generally moderate weathering and a bit of low-temperature burning. Little/no gnawing or digestion. A mixture of sheep and cow-sized animals, and a mixture of fragment sizes. Element distribution among the iDed pieces quite weighted toward cranial elements. Notable inclusions are a very big Bos occipital condyle, more weathered than most of the rest of the unit, and a large petrous. S2 (>4mm and 100% sorted) consists of both sheep and cattle sized scrap (long bone and skull frags), with just four diagnostics - a sheep/gt carpal, a sh/gt distal metapodial, and 2 horn core frags (probably Bos). Condition is reasonable (stages 2/3), a little low temperature burning, and one piece digested (no gnawing). Also includes a fair amount of battered small indeterminate pieces. This unit is interpreted as the fill of a pit cut, maybe a retrieval pit. The bone material could then represent floor sweepings into the pit, or material within the floor packing, into which the pit was cut. But could the large Bos occipital condyles represent part of an installation (bukranium)? It is noted as being more weathered than the rest of the assemblage, hence has presumably been exposed for longer. Last number= F39Figurine 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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