Unit 13140
Category: Layer dug in 2006
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: midden layer in pit
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: N-S=2.40m; E-W=1.30m; Depth=0.30m
Discussion: Midden layer in pit cuts. Slightly slumped infill on the Northern and North-West edges, but as this was mixed in with the midden, it was excavated as one.
Recognition: below midden layer (13103) and within cut
Definition: clear midden layers
Execution: mattock
Condition: hot
Consistency: friable
Colour: mid brownish grey
Texture: v. slightly clayey silt
Bedding: compound layer, but middle layers are very similar in colour
Inclusions: frequent bone, moderate pot, obsidian, charcoal flecks, stone
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: clear, concise in northern part where excavated down to pit cut. In southern part the pit could not be bottomed due to health and safety, but appeared to be coming down onto another fill.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 2000
Total Deposit Volume: 2030
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 21
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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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 Ceramics Data for 2006 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 7 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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