Unit 5538

Category: Layer    dug in 2002

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 3.5 x 1.5, 3 x 1.5 m 

 

Discussion: The boundary with this layer and 5521 is not that clear in the first place. I started taking 5521 out because it pealed off to a nice burnt deposit. Next to 5521 is this layer that seems to be earlier in deposition, but I am not sure. The midden type depositis variable in its own. Some areas are clearly formed by pudding with high proportions of sand (very neatly layered as thin lenses). And in some places there is more ash and plaster and charcoal. The general stratigraphy is a bit dificult to work out. I am happy than things will become clear as I go down and as I see more from the sections. 

 

Recognition: recognized as the continuation of midden deposits below 5520, 

Definition: defined by trench walls and an arbitrary cut by -- to the S 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: loose in general, firm at the inner corner where the deposit seems to have been formed by pudding 

Colour: dark greyish brown matrix with orange splatches (clays), white splotches (plaster), brown sploches (silty clay), black sploches (ash) 

Texture: sandy silt to siltyclay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: ash, charcoal, phytoliths, plaster chunks, mb chunks, bone, pot, obsidian, basically everything you need to make the place a midden 

Post-depositional Features: animal, insect, plant activity 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5539 below: (Click to view the record) 5520 equal to: (Click to view the record) 5521 

 

Dry sieve volume: 880 

Total Deposit Volume: 880 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 397

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

Ceramics Data for 2002 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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 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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