Unit 4836

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: dump,midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Dimensions: 4.6m+ w-e, 2.05m+ n-s, 0.06 to 0.25m thick 

 

Discussion: Series of midden like general dumps / spreads. A mixture of materials including ashy oven material, refuse dumps, organic material, clay bands. All generally sloping down to west and south. 

 

Recognition: unclear 

Definition: arbitrary / deep sounding 

Execution: mattock + trowel 

Condition: moist 

Consistency: moderate 

Colour: mixed, mainly light to mid greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: moderate small to large bone, moderate charcoal flecks, occasional obsidian / clay ball / burnt material frags. Contains ashy bands. 

Post-depositional Features: deep sounding, biturbation 

Basal Boundary: faint, smooth, anthropogenic, sloping down to west and south 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4837 below: (Click to view the record) 4824 equal to: (Click to view the record) 4518 

 

Dry sieve volume: 1080 

Total Deposit Volume: 1167 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 11

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 181

Features:: none

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:: 570  Unit description: F 165, 166, 168 and 169 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014) A fairly large unit from Space 181. It is part of the same midden as 4824 (above), 4837 and 4838 (below). Colour is light to medium brown, with very few of the darkly stained bones. Taxa include sheep/goat, equid, pig and cattle, but the proportions are unusual with a majority of sheep/goat, but also lots of equid and very little cattle. Feet and teeth are well represented as well as long bone fragments (few identifiable to element), but there is very little of the axial skeleton. Many or the equid phalanges and carpals are unweathered on their articular surface - probably articulated in ground. LM adds (in 2000): There is a large equid mandible fragment with two teeth in (seems like E. hydruntinus) which has number F511, but location is part of cluster X1. Completed: Sample 2, Flot >4mm, 100%, Flot no.2880. Also Flot no.2881. Complete: Sample 3, Flot > 4mm, 100%, Flot no. 2877 More material arrived November 2000 from dry sieve: 3-sized scrap and one O/C sesamoid. Most burnt. [sm] Last Number = F.561

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

Ground Stone Records: Yes Count of records:: 3

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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