Unit 5452

Category: Layer    dug in 2002

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

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

Dimensions: 2.10m x 1.40m x c. 0.12m deep 

Description: A series of tips/difficult to distinguish between each depositional even that constitute this second midden stratig + horizon. May have accumed over relatively short period of time. 

Recognition: Brutally arbitrary recognition - to define/determine stratigraphic control within the midden. 

Definition: Defined as a separate(distinct from (5449)) sequence at midden lenses/deposition events 

Execution: mattock, hoe, trowel 

Condition: very hot, little wind. 

Consistency: compact but a little 'greasy' or 'smeary'. Quite hard to touch and tendency to laminate with mattocked 

Colour: Again heterogenous - orangey brown - dark brown with occasional - frequent charcoal specks reqlly very dark and organic looking. 

Texture: Greasy clayish silt 45% clay 40% silt rest- sand 

Bedding: layered (laminated) 

Inclusions: frequent animal bone, large pieces of cow. Also occ. Broken clay ball, stone and obsidian. Mud brick and plaster fragments are also evident. 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing in section and large ant's nest 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary to maintain strat. (?). 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5453 below: (Click to view the record) 5449 

Dry sieve volume: 315 

Total Deposit Volume: 341 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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