Unit 1506
Category: cluster dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: bones
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut; Material: animal bone; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: shell, charcoal, clay ball, stone
Dimensions: 1.50m N/S 0.75m E/W
Discussion: Mainly dump deposit of bone, but with other inclusions (see above). Similar material to what was recovered from (1092) only much more concentrated within this specific cluster. Runs under walls 1516/1515 but lies up against 96/58.
Execution: leaf trowel trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: moderately firm
Colour: 2.5y 4/3 olive brown
Texture: sandy clay silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: >30% bone <2% clay balls pot, charcoal, shell, stone
Post-depositional Features:
Basal Boundary: distinct, dumped, wavy
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 60
Total Deposit Volume: 170
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 16
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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:: 491
Unit description: F1 is a bone tool fragment from flotation. Large unit. Although broken up in excavation, ancient pieces are relatively unfragmented. Heavy on the large mammal: cattle and equid. Also some pig; rather less sheep/goat than usual, some fox. Well preserved, little digestion, little burning. All body parts of all major taxa, although heavy on the limbs, lighter on the ribs, vertebrae, and skull. Seem to be an unusually high number of filleting marks on long bones: storage, or removing meat to cook? General impression is of a unit with considerable integrity, buried rapidly. Several femur heads; this unit notable for clay balls; but femur heads probably not out of proportion to rest of body. If this was a single event dump, as seen in the field, it represents a lot of meat. Note that toes and metapodials (non-meaty) are present, too. Does cooking with clay balls involve filleting meat off bone (at least for large animals)? Many of the phalanges were broken in antiquity. Flotation sample 2 4mm sorted 100%, only diagnostics recorded, rest as flotation fragments. It is a large sample containing lots of little crumbles of bone as well as some larger (up to 4-5 cm) pieces. A range of animal sizes is represented in the scrap; diagnostics are mostly sheep-size, with several pieces of fox. There is a little fish. The condition is generally good, with very little burning. Flotation sample 1 4mm sorted 100%, only diagnostics recorded, rest as flotation fragments. Even medium brown colour with little burning and digestion. The taxa are sheep/goat and two fox(?) phalanges. Most of the unit is very small fragments, that would not have been identifiable even if we were doing a full analysis of this sample.Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 3 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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