Unit 13640
Category: Layer dug in 2006
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Discussion: Fill of postretrival pit [13641] consiting of crushed brick and plaster, same in apperance to room fill. The animal bone in pit (x1 ,x2, x3) was dumped within mixed demolitionh debris and dis not appear to be deliberatly placed in in the feature. Burnt grinding stone (x4) was recovered from the base of the pit and may have been placed here after the post was removed but prior to the building being backfilled.
Pit contained small cattle horn core (x1), jeuvenile horse skull (x2) and burnt cattle radius (x3), all were mixed with building debris.
Seeds from floatation sample were normal range and density of crops and plants associated with room fill. No obsidian flakes were recovered from heavy residue.
Recognition: colour and brickey texture
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel
Condition: hot
Consistency: firm
Colour: mid brown
Texture: silty clay (mainly crucshed mudbrick
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: freq: plaster fragments, mod: animal bone, occa: obsidian flakes
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: sharp
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 61
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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:: 45 Figurine 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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