Unit 1422
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floors
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: non-white laid floor; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 90-85 x 150-132
Discussion: At the beginning of the excavation, we followed the very pale brown which was just under the top floor. It was a very damaged, and cut floor. There was a small dark grey hole in the floor, and also one cut. An obsidian point was found in that hole, so we decided to stop following the floor, and tried to reach a similar level with the cut. At the end of the day we followed a white floor which was cut in somewhere, and in the south-west of the unit and the edge of the south wall a line of lentils appeared. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10 YR 6/3 Pale brown
Texture: Silt loam
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: Charcoal, obsidian, shell, burnt plaster (floor) aggregates
Post-depositional Features: None
Basal Boundary: Very sharp, distinct cut
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
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:: 34
Unit description: This is a floor in building 1, space 71. Unit consists entirely of >4mm flot samples (S1, S4, S5), each 100% sorted and recorded. S1 is small, and has mainly sheep-size scrap (long bones, few ribs, a vertebra, and unids), though there are a few bits of cattle-size scrap, too (a long bone, vertebra, tooth ment). The only diagnostics are a juvenile sheep/goat ulna, and a dog phalanx. Fragmentation is high - most are a cm, and 3 cm max. Surfaces are not weathered. Bone colour is generally mid-brown as if heated, with ca. 20% charred. None are gnawed, but a couple may be digested. In general, seems to be post-consumption and processing discard, having been near fire at some stage, but not eroded or reworked (like floor remains are). Records = F1-17. S4 has a tiny amount of bone, with just two diagnostics (a sheep distal metacarpal, and a sh/gt neonate femur), and a handful of scrap pieces (sheep size longbone and rib frags). One piece burnt black, another piece calcined, another digested (no gnawing) suggesting mixed derivations, but condition is good and material seems quite fresh, not reworked. Several pieces of fish removed. Records = F18-25. S5 has a tiny amount of bone. Although it has mostly small (1 cm) sheep size non-ids, it has two pieces of cattle size long bone, one 5cms long, and a cattle size auditory bulla. Surfaces are quite rough, weathered; a few are charred. This sample is quite different from others. Records = F26-34. Generally, bone from S1 and 4 doesn't seem like floor material - it isn't battered/trampled/rolled/fragmented enough. It seems to have mixed derivations hence may actually be from fill above floor? S5 is different and could represent trampled/kicked about material. it is in poor condition, as if it could have been lying around on a floor surface for some time. It also has bigger pieces than others, although all are tiny samples.Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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