Unit 4465
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: infill
Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: EW 5.80m, NS 0.15m, 0.45m deep
Description: In fill between room walls . Its north: wall 79, its south wall 483 its east 4433 and at the south east 4432.
Discussion: The bones in the fill look like that they stucked in between the walls.
Recognition: This an infill between wall79 and wall483.
Definition: Northern side-wall 79, southern side wall 483, western side continues along North end of building 6 (or equivalent), then eroded away.
Execution: Trowel, hand pick.
Condition: Dry, firm and sometimes friable.
Consistency: Firm to crumbly-friable.
Colour: Grey brown/yellowish brown with lots of white and a few beige inclusions.
Texture: Silty clay .
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: %4 flecks of charcoal, lots of varying sized animal bones, %2 clay balls, %2 shell,
Post-depositional Features: disturbance by roots, insects and animals.
Basal Boundary: Change in accumulated deposits, gradual, diffuse, wavy, irregular.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 20
Total Deposit Volume: 62
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of Related Diary Entries: 4
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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:: 163
Unit description: F 138 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014) Wall fill from the exterior walls between Building 2 and 6(?). An apparently primary deposit full of bones, a few of which were articulated. In some areas the bones were piled together so closely that there was no dirt between them. They were not highly fragmented in the ground, but were extremely wet and broke into many pieces between the field and the lab. There was also a small intrusive burrow of uncertain date which contained a complete polecat skeleton, as well as a number of other rodent burrows, including one with another complete small mammal that was thrown out by excavators as intrusive. Bone colour is light to medium brown, but overall very light in colour and with a relatively small amount of staining or burning. Taxa represented are cattle, sheep/goat, pig, equid, dog, a red deer pelvis and one human metacarpal. Other human bone was apparently also found in a rodent burrow in this unit but did not make it to the faunal lab. There are a large number of sheep horn cores as well as some juvenile sheep/goat in the hand-picked section. The deposit seems to have become more like a regular midden and less particular (i.e. more elements and more individuals) to the east although this may be related to the different method of excavation. A number of large bones were bagged separately as a single bone although they were in many pieces. Rather than lumping them in with the 117 fragments all of these fragments were weighed as a separate record and designated as 'same bone' in the articulation category. Thank goodness for Duco cement. 4mm, flotation sample #3, 100% sorted, was recorded for diagnostics only and was mainly very small bone fragments which displayed minimal weathering or digestion. Last Number = F.166 karen took a calculus sample from F158Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 4 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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