Unit 1423
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: grinding area
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: basin; Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: NS 55cm and EW 66cm- excavated area is 66x 30cm
Discussion: Sub-rectangular grinding area has two different phases and/or could be repair work. Although earliest and latest was exactly the same place oriented E-W direction and 1431which lentil storage bins surface/floor.
Find which is numbered as X3 was upside down possibly used as an anvil, more than grinding things on it. I have removed the stone placed in the hearth which is placed partly in the bulk, the bottom of hearth plastered and just below the plaster there is another hearth or fireplace (earlier).
X4 co-ordinates estimated from sketch on unit sheet using location of level. CAH 24/08/09
Consistency: Moderately firm
Colour: 7.5 YR 4/4 Brown
Texture: Sandy clay to sandy clay loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Worked stones, low density (2 of them)
Post-depositional Features: None
Basal Boundary: Gently sloping inwards from edges, and almost sub- rectangular shaped. Grinding area.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 5
Total Deposit Volume: 18
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10
Number of X-Finds 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:: 21
Unit description: Tiny unit with 3 small bits of scrap, 2 burnt, 1 digested. Sample 3 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Also tiny, with 7 little pieces of sheep-size scrap, all under 2 cm. Four are burnt at low temperatures. Not very weathered, but look slightly kicked around. Looks like floor. Sample 7 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Still very little, most of it burnt at low temperature. Highly fragmented, not weathered but some of it looking a bit trampled. Notable because actually mostly tiny bits of large mammals. Still looks like floor, but seems to be catching remnants of a different meal(s), left behind after sweeping. Last number = 21Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 14 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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