Unit 1400
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: burnt collapse
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: c.1.9m n-s, 0.7m w-e
Discussion: After removal of late walls 9+10, we now remove burnt rubble underlying the walls. This comes down directly on to floor. Contemporary with/same as 1298/1302
Execution: Big pick
Consistency: Weak
Colour: Reddish brown
Texture: Silt - loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Burnt brick bits 10%
Post-depositional Features: Roots
Basal Boundary: Flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 170
Total Deposit Volume: 190
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
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:: 26
Unit description: Unit including bucranium (X3). This skull plus horn cores is so fragmented, fragile and powdery that it was not possible to reconstruct it (glue won't hold). Therefore the bone is in c.100 fragments and no measurements taken or morphology discernible (except for rough field measurement). Colour: light brown; no burning; surface mildly weathered; salts adhering to surface in many places, probably a result of plastering, which is particularly evident on horn cores - in places plaster still remains as a 6mm thick grey layer over surface of bone (one piece taken as sample). All bone is strikingly soft and dampish, and roots attached - maybe preparation of bucranium (plaster) served to retain moisture? All records following should be treated as estimates of what was there since they are drawn from memory of the bucranium in the field - all had crumbled after lifting. Not washed. Piece of 'south' horn core, i.e. left hand horn core taken as DNA sample (not refrigerated). Rest of unit is small, but includes some big pieces and big taxa. Rather weathered, very little burning. A proximal femur and proximal tibia of a sheep/goat seem very similar in age + weathering, but lack intervening parts, so clearly not articulated. Fragments of an unsplit distal tibia point (modern breaks, pieces missing) included with unit. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Rather small, with small pieces of mostly sheep-size bone. Two are burnt at low temperatures. Most looks rather worn and trampled. Looks like floor. A 10g fragment of X3 removed for C14, 15/8/01. LM Last number = 25Figurine 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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