Unit 4397
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: burial fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial
Dimensions: 1.03m (E-W), 1.19m (N-S), 0.52m thick
Discussion: Fill of burial containing the crouched skeleton of a young adult male. Top truncated by cut of baby burial.
Recognition: Fill of faint cut also containing skeleton
Definition: Faint edges with marginal contrast to surrounding layers
Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel, small tools and brushes
Condition: Dry and firm at top becoming moister with depth
Consistency: Firm at surface becoming slightly friable with depth
Colour: Mottled dark greyish brown and beige
Texture: Silty clay
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: <5% charcoal flecks, small rounded stones and small animal bones
Post-depositional Features: some root and insect activity
Basal Boundary: Clear, wavy, anthropic
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 315
Total Deposit Volume: 439
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 25
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII
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:: 112
Unit description: Flot Sample 2560 Flot Sample 2555 Flot Sample 2536 [Flot Sample 2911] Priority unit from fill around adult grave Colour is medium brown to grey with a generally small fragment size. Taxa include sheep/goat and a medium size/young dog. A small number of 1 cm bones are slightly burnt. There are a large number of small rodent bones and two fish bones. The fill is indistinguishable from the fill in the surrounding units, except for the large quantity of rodent bones, especially in the 1 and 2 mm fractions. According to the excavators the rodent bones were found in small jumbles around the body. One was identified as an owl pellet due to the patch of orangish soil it was found in. The assemblage is identical to the flot sample for 4325 - the surrounding fill. The fourth sample from this unit was tentatively identified as an owl pellet and will be analyzed with the microfauna. Sample 2 [2911] was analysed in 2000. There is a fair bit of burning (about 1/3 of the asemblage) of both low and high temperature, but no digestion or gnawing. The pieces are battered and not fresh. There is a tiny fragment of vertebral epiphysis from a small animal, a couple of small rib fragments from small animals, and a piece of scapula blade. It looks jumbled and redeposited. Last Number = 112Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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