Unit 1093
Category: Cluster dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: cluster
Data Category Information: Location: midden; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition; Basal Spit: burnt mudbrick, bots, obsid, pottery, burnt stone
Dimensions: 1.0m x 1.20m x 0.05m
Discussion: Cluster within 1074. Dump, given the wide variety of material, both heavily burnt and not, rather than an activity area.
Consistency: Strong and dry
Colour: 10yr 4/3 -3/3
Texture: sandy clay loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Artefactual: burnt (charcoal, stone) aggregates, brick, mortar or floor plaster aggregates, bone, shell. Plant remains: silicated plants, huckberries. Geological: natural stones, clay.
Post-depositional Features: No
Basal Boundary: Sharp smooth anthropogenic boundary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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:: 62
Unit description: Unit 1093 is an animal bone cluster within 1074, an ashy midden deposit. The faunal assemblage is dominated by cattle bones and fragments of 007 size bone. There is the occasional 003 size fragment and a few elements are identifiable to equid. However, the cluster seems to have high integrity and consist mainly of cow bones, although these must have come from at least two animals as there are both subadult and adult bones present. In terms of body part representation the rib cage, some vertebra and the hind limb are represented. Most the bones came from the adult animal, but a calcaneus and some phalanges came from the younger animal. The adult cow may have been fairly old when it died as the single molar recovered is very worn. Fragmentation of assemblage seems typical, whilst digested and gnawed bone are absent. A similar pattern appears in the 4mm flotation sample (#1) which was recorded for diagnostics only, although 003 sized bones are slightly more common. Overall, the bone seems to represent a single depositional event where the fragmented hind limbs and torso of a medium-sized cow was dumped into a midden deposit. This may have been exposed for a short time as some of the bone is slightly weathered and could explain some of the mixing with other material, although dogs do not appear to have had access to the material during this period of exposure. Last number = 62Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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