Unit 1315

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: outside building 

 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 0.9 x 0.8m 

 

Discussion: Heavily burnt fill between Building 1 and next Building to E. 30 cm baulks left between 1315 and next trench to N. mixed reddish brownish deposits generally soft and ashy. 

 

Execution: Pick and trowel 

Consistency: Moderately weak 

Colour: 5 YR 5/3 Reddish brown 

Texture: Silt loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Brick lumps 0.2 - 15 cm 2%; charred remains 0.1 - 2 cm 2% 

Post-depositional Features: Roots 

Basal Boundary: Flat, moderately distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1323 below: (Click to view the record) 1100 

 

Dry sieve volume: 220 

Total Deposit Volume: 264 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 73

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:: 171  Unit description: Medium-size unit, with roughly equal amounts of sheep-size and larger taxa. Almost all burnt, most of it carbonized or nearly. Also many chunks of black burnt soil bagged with bone. Wide variety of elements represented, including much cranial. Perhaps an originally complete dog skull, and wild goat horn core; both burnt. Much fragmentation resulting from burning; original pieces seem to have been rather large. Sample 1 >4 mm flotation 100% sorted, only diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. It has a range of large and small pieces. Some burning, but less than in dry sieved material. Last number = 171

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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