Unit 1431
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: in working space 100 x 160 cm
Discussion: Massive, moderate compaction packing layers or floor partly has been thinned due to levelling the surface. Floors-for discussion see 1441. Scattered bones were grouped as shown in the sketch plan and they are associated with animal bones which could belong to sheep or goat. Page 2 Area extended towards south in order to trace the cut 1460 and investigate the scattered animal bones (see plan). Total width of extension is about 24cm in S-N direction.
Execution: Trowel/ hand pick
Consistency: Very firm
Colour: 10YR 7/3 and 7/4 very pale brown
Texture: Silty clay loam
Bedding: Layered, fine layers
Inclusions: Charcoal, fine roots, brick aggregates, mortar aggregates, ash
Post-depositional Features: Contained very fine layers of floors
Basal Boundary: Flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 15
Total Deposit Volume: 134
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 13
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:: 99
Unit description: Small unit, consisting mostly of little pieces of scrap, all from sheep-size animals. One burnt articulated ankle (together in ground) of a sheep. Some burning, not very intense. Mostly not very weathered. Sample 5 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Moderate amount of small pieces of scrappy sheep-size and large mammal bone. Much is burnt, mostly low temperature. Quite fragmented, but a few pieces up to 2-3 cm. Most is rather weathered. Seems like too much and some pieces too big for floor. Fill with reworked floor sweepings? Sample 6 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Consists of 2 little pieces of sheep-size scrap, looking somewhat kicked around. Looks like clean floor. Sample 9 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Smallish, but more than sample 6. Small pieces of mostly sheep-size scrap, mostly under 1 cm. Only three burnt pieces. Weathering somewhat variable, but most looks rather kicked around. Looks like dirty floor, or a bit of fill. Sample 10 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Smalllish sample with little pile of antler crumbles, otherwise mostly small pieces of mostly sheep-size scrap. One 5 cm fragment, most under 1 cm. Quite a bit of low temperature burning. Although some are fresh, most look rather worn and trampled. Looks like floor with perhaps a bit of fill included. Sample 11 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Small but not tiny sample of small pieces of mostly sheep-size scrap, only one as large as 2 cm. No burning. Rather rolled. Looks like floor. Sample 12 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Small sample of small pieces, only one barely over 1 cm. Although small fragments, actually a high proportion of large mammal. One burnt, one digested. Look rather rolled/trampled. Looks like floor, but retaining remnants of different event(s) from some of the others in the unit. Last number = 98Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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