Unit 6100
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: collapsed debris
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 0.80 x 0.60 m
Discussion: This unit represents the collapsed remains immidiately around the screen wall (F. 601) on its Est side, i.e. in space 86. The unit is unusual in that it runs along the screen wall and includes a variety of deposits. These deposits were left in place because they provided a support for the screen wall, which is leaning towards East. Now, that we have uncovered the contemporary house floor we need to deal with the screen wall.
Stone tool (X2) is burnt and is laying right next to the screen wall base. Clay (x1) is a fragment of animal horn made in clay. It was found in the collapsed debris right next to the screen wall.
Recognition: seen in profile of lower floors
Definition: along screen wall
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: hard/compact
Colour: 10 YR 8/2 plaster / 10YR 6/3 pale brown - brown orange packing
Texture: silty clay 50/70 %
Bedding: compound layered clayey floors/packing/plaster - all relatively clean
Inclusions: charcoal (flecks small <5%), plaster aggregates (mid-large, 15 %), chaff voids (small, 25% in brownish orange clay layer only)
Post-depositional Features:
Basal Boundary: f. 606 lowest floor in space 86
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 15
Number of X-Finds 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
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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:: 1
Unit description: No material from the dry sieve. Sample 10 >4mm flotation 100% sorted. This is a smallish sample of fragments mostly under 2 cm, with one larger piece of sheep/goat premaxilla, the only diagnostic. Otherwise mostly sheep-size with a little large mammal. The surface condition is generally good and most of it is quite fresh and could come from sweepings or remnants of meal preparation. But then there are a couple of digested vertebra fragments, one of them burnt. So either there are different deposits, or perhaps this is clean construction material that mostly caught fresh material. Sample 13 >4mm flotation 100% sorted. This sample probably comes from a different deposit. It consists of three scrappy bits under 1 cm, two sheep-size and one cow-size (burnt). The surfaces are somewhat worn. Looks like clean construction material. Apparently also a Sample 3 recorded, with only indeterminate bits.Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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