Unit 4623
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 0.8m (N-S) by 0.56m (E-W) by 0.10m depth
Discussion: Lower grave fill contains occasional owl pellets possibly from upper fill. Contains part of spread of red ochre layer. Arbitrary division between upper fill of body and cover fill beneath body.
Recognition: Within grave F.513
Definition: By cut
Execution: Lifted as one after removal of body
Condition: Average to good, moist
Consistency: friable
Colour: mid greyish brown
Texture: clay silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: occasional charcoal, red ochre
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: clear, sharp
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
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:: 6
Unit description: Flot 2775 - completely analyzed The lower fill from F.513 - an adult grave in Building 6. There is a large number of rodent bones in the 4 mm and many more in the 2 and 1 mm fractions. There is also a large amount of small chips of recently broken bone, probably chips from the human skeleton as it was being cleaned and lifted. Aside from that this the unit is generally medium to dark brown with a small amount of burned chips. Nothing above the size of a mouse is identifiable to element or taxon.Figurine 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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