Unit 10259

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: floors 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Description: Medium track 

 

Discussion: Lower most floors in space 237. Clearly identified as belonging to building 47 by the face that they postdate the retaining wall 10261.
When removing the floors we came onto a brown layer which is probably the make up for the floors. Under this brown layer might be more floors but they probably relate to earlier structures. 

 

Recognition: different color 

Definition: within space 237 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: varies from loose to firm 

Colour: brownish 

Texture: clay and plaster 

Bedding: compound parallel floors 

Inclusions: pot, bone, obsidian, quartz, shell 

Post-depositional Features: animal and roots 

Basal Boundary: flat clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10235, 10262, 10231, 10233 below: (Click to view the record) 10246 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 47

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 237

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 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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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