Unit 14429
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: burial fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Discussion: fill was med brown with some construction fill+ debris
disarticulated finger bones+ vertebre, possibly associated with bunzls 14438 /child/, 14441 /adult/ burials. Heavy amounts of phytoliths are closely associated with the skeletons, possibly indicating basket or blanket burials.
14/09/09 Michele Massa: the greenstone axe found in the fill has been x-finded and assigned to three different units (14440, 14441 and 14429). The crate register shows that the actual objects is stored as 14429.x1, so the others have been deleted
Recognition: recognized as filling cut in platform
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel. Small tools
Condition: hot, slight breeze
Consistency: friable/loose
Colour: med brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: bone. Human bone. Obsidian. Shell. Phytoliths
Post-depositional Features: insect action
Basal Boundary: unclear
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 257
Total Deposit Volume: 480
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 14
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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 Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
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