Unit 5041
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: layer
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 1.7m EW, 1.4m NS, 0.01 - 0.02m D
Discussion: 5041 is a thin ash + charcoal spread under 5040 Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve but probably not
Recognition: dark brown
Definition: dark brown
Execution: plan, lift
Condition: good
Consistency: friable
Colour: dark browny black
Texture: clay, silt
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: charcoal 50 - 60%
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: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
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:: 60
Unit description: Sample 2 >4 mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Moderate-sized sample from oven rake-out. Almost all sheep-size, with badger maxilla. All body parts all represented, especially long bones and feet. Range of fragment sizes, mostly not too tiny. A little burning, low and high temperature. Very fresh and unweathered. Quite a bit of integrity, as much could come from one or two animals, and phalanges conjoin and refit old breaks. Much of it looks like the remains or escapees from bone grease processing: phalanges and articulations that have been deliberately broken into little pieces. No wonder there is so little measurable bone! Probably what we usually see in the middens and such is a further stage, after they have been boiled and worked over by dogs, by which point very little of the articulation is left. These bits may have been swept up inadvertently from the edge of the processing area, or left behind afterwards and then swept up. This indicates that bone grease was made in the houses, at least sometimes. It also indicates that this household processed and presumably ate at least two animals, a sheep and a goat, in the course of the time represented by this accumulation. The freshness of the bone suggests a rapid accumulation (although maybe this is deceptive if it accumulated indoors in a low-traffic area), perhaps indicating that they ate meat more frequently than I thought. Or maybe this was an unusual situation. Note the badger maxilla here and the badger foot in 5021. There are several units, including oven floors, in between, so it seems highly unlikely that these are two bits of an intrusive animal. in this case, were the foot and maxilla deliberately placed in the rake-out, or swept up from the floor as remnants of food or fur processing? Last number = 60Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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