Unit 1128

Category: layer    dug in 1995

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 2 x 2m 

 

Discussion: Room fill - highly contaminated. Contained sherd, obsidian flake, greenstone axe and quantities of bone 

 

Execution: trowel, small pick 

Condition: warm under cover 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: 10YR 6/2 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charred plants <2%, <2cm; white plaster 5%, <10cm in N, <3cm in S; orange burnt brick <2%, <3cm; bone <2%, <6cm; ash <2% 

Post-depositional Features: common fine-coarse roots, animal burrows, lots of modern plant material 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1139, 1150, 1146, 1163 below: (Click to view the record) 1419 

 

Dry sieve volume: 225 

Total Deposit Volume: 225 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 8

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: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 183

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

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 105  Unit description: Small-medium size unit with variety of taxa and sizes. Quite fragmented, much burning, some manganese staining. Many have light coating of ?calcium carbonate. Many fragments of what is probably a single skull of a sheep-size neonate. Last number = 100

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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