Unit 3562
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floor surface
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 1.0x1.0
Description: Mixed layer of loose fill, mostly ashy layers.Definition of floor surface (top) hard to.Identify due to multiple layering of floor levels and ease of removal. Stone objects found near floor level.
Discussion: These are deposits that rest on the house floor. They conprise remains of roof and other structural debris that collapsed inside the house and sraight onto the floor.
The debris of the same kind as the surrounding 1x1m units (grid) that are put on the floor (3572, 3563, 3573).
29.07.99. ret: floor broken though in places
Definition: Grid
Consistency: slightly plastic, slightly sticky
Colour: darkish brown 10YR 4/4
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: 0.5-10 cm < 10%
Post-depositional Features: few roots, some small animal/insect holes
Basal Boundary: sharp, distinct onto floor
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds 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
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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:: 140
Unit description: X1 is a large fragment of a sheep tibia with odd cut marks. Sample 1 flotation >4 mm residue sorted 100%, recorded completely. Quite large for floor unit; certainly doesn't look like clean floor, but probably includes a certain amount of the fill above the floor. Nearly all sheep-size, including one tooth each of a sheep and a goat of the same age. Fairly even distribution of body parts, although vertebrae are scanty, and the foot bones are mostly digested and hence of separate origin. A notable lack of horn core. Quite fragmented, but not just tiny worn bits. Some burning, fair amount of digestion. Weathering variable. Two bone tools, both with old breaks. A fair bit of microfauna, looking to be mostly frog, some of it burnt. Looks like daily post-consumption discard, in fact like small bit of 'midden'; this is rather different from the other House 3 floor units to come in so far. Last number = 139Figurine 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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