Unit 3566

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: above floor 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 1 x 1m 

 

Discussion: Layer directly above the floor in south half of sp.86. Arbitrary unit, 1x1m in size. Consists of construction rubble (brick, mortar & burnt mat.). Underneath (on the floor) layers of ash, varying in thickness (1-5mm) which makes this unit a part of a "dirty area". Abundance of phytolites in the rubble & chared plant remains in ash layers. 

 

Recognition: shape colour (black ash over red burned), consistency 

Definition: clear, grid 

Execution: trowel, mattock, leaf-trowel, brush 

Condition: moist to dry 

Consistency: strong (bricks, mortar) to loose (ash) 

Colour: brick (10YR 7/3), mortar (white), ash (black) 

Texture: mostly clay 

Bedding: compound, irregular, discontinuous 

Inclusions: bone, obsidian, charcoal, burnt mat., phytolites 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, salts 

Basal Boundary: antropogenic - constructional, prominent, smooth, slightly slopping to N. 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6106 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 86

Features:: (Click to view the record) 606 (central "room")

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 94  Unit description: Sample 8 >4 mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Large sample for floor unit. Most of it is little bits, but there are some larger pieces. Most body parts are represented, but feet only by a digested phalanx. More vertebrae than many. Many crumbles of what was probably once a sizable piece of sheep/goat horn core. Mostly sheep-size, but some large mammal. Quite fragmented, fair amount of mostly low temperature burning. Not very weathered, but some pieces seem worn and trampled. Some fish; lots of microfauna, some of it burnt. Much of the microfauna seems to be frog. Not much sense of integrity. Looks like fill that contains remains of daily post-consumption discard, perhaps redeposited midden. On the other hand, a piece of mandible with two incisors still in it suggests rather primary deposition. Last number = 94

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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