Unit 1344
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: lentil layer
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Material: archaeobotanical; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: groundstone, animal bone
Dimensions: 120 x 73 x 2-7 cm
Description: from 1332
Discussion: Layer of mostly charred lentils covering while floor of 'bin' feature, with white/yellow crust over it and patches of 'ash' material; cluster of burnt horn cores (goat/sheep?) at the top surface /outer face with (1342)-may actually be associated with (1345) though rather than this unit (1344) see drawing 96/221.
For description see(1332)
Execution: Trowel
Condition: Dry
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 7.5 YR 4/4 brown with patches of pale yellow and black
Texture: Silt loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Brick burnt lumps 0.2 - 10 cm, 5%; some stones
Post-depositional Features: Roots, barrows
Basal Boundary: Smooth, undulating, floor
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 20
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 59
Unit description: All material from unit given single X number! Pile of probably wild goat horn cores on top of lentil bin (several lentils included with horn cores). All quite charred, and covered with shiny, vitrified deposit, both inside and outside (but not on broken surfaces), and on the skull as well as the horn cores. We have been guessing that such deposits are the remains of horns and hooves, but this patterning throws doubt on this idea. Peter Andrews suggests that it may be the remains of some greasy coating, perhaps from oily seeds that surrounded them; it does have a rather greasy feel. Would lentils be oily enough, or was there some oil/fat surrounding them? Were the horns placed on top of the lentils to weight down a cover, and/or to protect them symbolically? If these are indeed wild goats, it makes for an interesting juxtaposition of the wild and domestic. Part of this deposit was excavated in unit 1314, a bit from 1332. The tip half of the horns are fairly well-preserved, but once they reach the hollow part toward the base they have crumbled away, such that there are no measurable specimens. They are large, however, and definitely have the aegagrus shape; morphologically wild. At least 7 horn cores. Sample sent for analysis of deposit. Sample 9 4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. Horn cores don't appear here, but there is one little fragment that could be from the scapula in 1332, the only thing with the same oily black deposit as the horn cores. Some tiny bits of mostly sheep-size scrap. Fair amount of burning. Not very weathered, but some variation. Probably bits that have sifted down from the fill above. Sample 10 4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. This one consists mostly of fragments from the horn cores, burnt to degrees varying from slight burning to mildly calcined. Only the carbonized pieces have the oily vitrified deposit; presumably these are the only conditions under which it is preserved. There are also a few tiny bits of sheep-size scrap, mostly burnt as well, and one piece each of burnt shell and burnt fish bone. These bits were presumably in the vicinity, perhaps incorporated into the architecture, when this part of the house burned. 5 fragments of X3 removed for C14 to UK, 15/8/01. LM Last number = 58Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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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