Unit 8243

Category: layer    dug in 2001

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: floor base 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 79cm X 87 cm 

 

Discussion: This finally removed F. 646 from the excavation. The fire pit was made ofvery thick, very hard and packed silty clay. The walls and base of the pit were the same material. The pit itself was resting directly on the thick layer of packing consistently found under the layers of the old sp. 158. 

 

Recognition: hard brown stuff bordered by oven walls 

Definition: diffuse 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hard 

Consistency: dry and hard 

Colour: 10YR 6/3 pale brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp irregular sedimentary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8231 

 

Dry sieve volume: 17 

Total Deposit Volume: 46 

Number of Samples 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 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 201

Features:: (Click to view the record) 646 (fire installation)

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 2001 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 2

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 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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