Unit 4416
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: infill
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Description: as 4172
Discussion: neo infill NE quad
Recognition: below 3999
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel, mattock
Condition: moist
Consistency: friable
Colour: dark brown
Texture: clayey silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: plaster pieces, brick pieces, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: root holes, occ. mouse holes
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 7710
Total Deposit Volume: 7803
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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:: 502
Unit description: Dry sieve: The description for the bone fragments that come from flotation samples has been done by SAF at 1999. At the year 2000 the dry sieve material has been worked. This is a large unit from a room fill between two buildings, which has been filled to form a foundation for the upper new building. There is a wide range of taxa (wild cattle, sheep-goat, equid, small mammals, few fish bones and some complete bones of Canis that seem like coming from the same animal). The canid bones are: humerus, tibia, radius, metatarsals and metacarpals and phalanges and they all seem as though they come from the same animal. Very large bones of Bos do exist: a vertebra, a mandible, a metapodial. The rest of the diagnostics are generally sheep and goat bones and they have the majority. Rib fragments, teeth fragments, long bone fragments and skull fragments for both 03 and 07 sizes do exist also. However, not many burnt and diagnostic pieces have been found. And a 07 size horn core came through the site (badly damaged). Although the bones are quite fragmented, the canid bones came as complete. For the rest, half of the bones are fragmentation 6 and the other half is 2. There are lots of diagnostic bones mostly sheep-goat size. %5 of the bones are burnt, mostly at low temperatures. There has been just few pieces of gnawed bones. Digested pieces are < %5 of the whole unit. Mostly weathering 2 or 3. There are few fresh bones. Although some canid bones and some sheep-goat size vertebrae articulate, the taxa is quite range. The surface conditions are more or less similar. (SAF 1999 writes about >4mm samples): Flot 2646 2567 2783 - immediately adjacent to grave cut. Infill from NW corner of building 8. Flot samples studied in order to compare grave fill from F.513 with surrounding fill. In general the flot samples are medium to dark brown with a small amount of burning and a variety of staining. 02, 03 and 07 size taxa are present. In sample 2646 there are three canid bones from the hind foot - perhaps related to the canid bones in F.513?. There is a single mouse mandible and fish bone from the sample taken immediately adjacent to the grave. Overall the flot samples appear very similar to the fill from the grave although the rodent bones, the complete weasel skeleton and perhaps the canid seem to be part of the burial event. D1 is a boar's tusk fish hook. (LM adds) F485 is a beautiful piece of worked boar's tusk, incised and drilled, similar to one described by Mellaart in E.VII.12 burial. F486 is a worked boar's tusk piece, F 487 is worked bone. {Quite a lot of worked boar's tusk in this area. -NR 2001} Sample 2 was found in Sept 2000 and analysed by sm: one fish toothed part, the rest scrap (probably from sheep-sized animals). Nothing new to add. Recorded as Flot Frags only. Last number = F503Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 6 Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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