Unit 1358
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floor
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: c.2.0m n-s, 1.9m w-e
Discussion: Removal of plaster floor in Space 110. Unit no covers entire room, but floor is excavated in 4 squares, each approx. 1 x 1 m, and samples taken from each square. Finds are to be 3D located. This in unit is removal of whole series of plaster floors down onto brown deposit which is either packing or occupation debris on top of next floors down, also onto burnt surface underneath. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve
Execution: Pick and trowel
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10Y 8/1 light greenish gray
Texture: Silt loam
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: Very small charred remains <1mm<2%
Post-depositional Features: Roots
Basal Boundary: Flat, distinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 21
Number of X-Finds 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
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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:: 56
Unit description: Sample 8 (dry sieve; section of floor): A few pieces of sheep-size scrap. Very little burning. Rather weathered. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. A few mostly small sheep-size bits of scrap, many with plastery coating. A little low temperature burning. Weathering varies from quite well-preserved to somewhat rolled/trampled. Some froggy microfauna. No coherence. Looks like floor. Sample 4 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Similar to sample 1, although notable for a few largish (2- cm) pieces of skull. Some bone is a little worn, but most quite fesh. Looks more like sweepings than floor, or at least low traffic floor. Sample 12 flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Not labelled, but appears to be 1, 2, and 4mm combined. Some fish and microfauna from the 1-2mm range. Only macrofauna is a bit of burnt sheep-size scrap, rather fresh. Looks llike clean floor or something. Sample 15 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Small sample of 4 small pieces of bone, 3 sheep-size, one large mammal. One is a metapodial fragment. The large mammal bit is heavily calcined. It and the metapodial are rather battered. The other bits are quite fresh. Looks like floor. Sample 16 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Larger than some, with mostly scrappy bits of sheep-size bone, a little burning. Also a complete human floating rib. What is that doing here? It is beautifully preserved, whereas most of the rest of the bone is rather weathered. Animal burrow? A bit of amphibian microfauna. Minus the human rib, looks more like fill than floor. Sample 19 >4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. More small bits of sheep-size scrap with some burning. Range of weathering, including some very fresh. Some with plastery film. Looks like dirty floor or sweepings. 15/08/01: 3 grams of sheep-size scrap removed from S19 for C14 dating - UK. LM. Last number = 56Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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