Unit 1417
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: platform floors
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 167x135x5cm
Discussion: Platform F32 - surviving floors which abut 'step' around edge of platform and sequentially 'infilling' it, eventually making it much lower on the inside. These have been partially disturbed by F20 and completely truncated along the eastern edge by later levelling and wall (1418). This layer was stopped - partly arbitrarily as individual floors were not traced but the earliest phase of the floors associated with the step construction appeared and it was at this level that we stopped (see unit 1429).
Execution: handpick and trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: moderately firm
Colour: 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) to 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: flecks of plaster and brick 2% <1mm
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 2% (5-20cm diameter)
Basal Boundary: faint
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 107
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
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:: 30
Unit description: Small unit consisting entirely of skull fragments, not necessarily all from the same skull, certainly from different parts. One piece is slightly burnt, others not. Somewhat weathered. 100% of 4mm flotation residue processed. 4 mm flotation sorted and recorded completely. Quite a large flotation sample, also consisting almost entirely of skull and a few horn core fragments, mostly old breaks. A few tiny bits of indeterminate scrap, some of them burnt. The skull fragments are unburnt. Large mammal skull fragments more weathered than most of the other bone. Is this the incorporation of old installations into the platform? 2003: Removed a 7 g chunk of cattle horn core from the scrap bag of sample 1 for radiocarbon dating. Last number = 30Figurine 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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