Unit 1297
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: outside building
Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 1.0m n-s, 0.76m w-e
Discussion: Fill lying to east of Space 110-111. 1 m strip of fill lying at side main E wall of Building 1.Aim is to expose extend wall face of building1 and to recover debris between building 1. Deposit is mix of ashy debris with considerable amounts of bone different from deposit contained within building.
Execution: Pick & trowel
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10 YR 6/3 pale brown
Texture: Silt loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Clay lumps 0.5 - 15 cm 5%; charred flecks 0.1 - 2 cm 5%.
Post-depositional Features: Roots
Basal Boundary: Level, distinct (fairly)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 80
Total Deposit Volume: 125
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 58
Unit description: Small-medium unit, with primarily large mammal scrap in originally large pieces. Quite soft and weathered, and fragmented through modern breaks. Some burning, but most not. Very little cranial. 100% of flotation sample sorted. Much bone in 4 mm. flotation, many large pieces, mostly large mammal. Slightly more cranial material, but not a lot. Last number = 58Figurine 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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