Unit 1511
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: construction cut fill,dump
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: foundation cut; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 2m x 3.70m
Discussion: Dumped deposit forming basal face of construction cut 1043. Compact an clayey nature of this deposit may represent construction trample of the wall 1515/1516. Part of this material may be the same or similar to that used in forming the mudbrick to the walls. This is possible, given the suggestion that the larger mudbricks of the foundation would have been made near the site of the wall to be built.
Execution: mattock,trowel
Condition: dry/hot
Consistency: firm
Colour: 2.5Y 4/4 olive brown
Texture: sandy, clay silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: <2% bone, charoal, clay balls, plaster, shell
Post-depositional Features: possible trampling during construction of walls 1515/1516
Basal Boundary: dumped, distinct wavey
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 450
Total Deposit Volume: 535
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 380
Unit description: F 283 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014)
Quite large unit with variety of taxa and sizes. Relatively little diagnostic, lots of long bone shaft fragments, fair number of vertebrae, perhaps a little light on ribs and skull fragments. Less fragmented than many, although lots of modern breaks. Quite a bit of equid, good bit of cattle. Sheep-size certainly present, but seems relatively less abundant than usual. A bit of large pig. Variable weathering with some rather weathered bones, a number of originally large piecces of large bones crumbling away, as well as some more solid big pieces. Very little digestion or burning. Few/no cut marks on ribs, no rib heads. Equids and cattle seem to be treated the same way in terms of fragmentation. Heavy gnaw on some phalanges; one pair of cattle third phalanges chewed back to same halfway point, presumably with hoof still on. Phalanges quite fragmented, especially cattle. MNI of 4 for O/C on right ilia; also 4 Ovis on left proximal femora. Measured juvenile specimens (after Mindy Zeder). 4mm flotation sorted 100%, only diagnostics recorded fully, rest as flotation fragments. Sample 2 was a fairly large flotation sample, with large pieces, especially before the modern breaks. Little burning, quite a bit of digestion. Fairly well preserved. One bit of possibly digested microfauna. Seems weighted toward large mammals. Bos carpal, sheep and pig teeth. [updated 2000]: More bags of 4mm flotation material were located for this unit. There were three bags of Sample 1 and two of Sample 2, as well as one isolated bone in a bag, which I presume comes from the dry sieved material (it is a cattle carpal with a nice example of classic dismemberment cut marks). The Sample 2 material is similar to the previous description, except that most bones are from smaller animals (sheep-sized and smaller) rather than larger animals (only one piece of distal long bone). Digestion and burning are in similar proportions, each about 10% of the whole. There are sheep/goat carpals, premolars, scapula fragments, and a bit of distal metapodial; however, most of the material is unidentifiable scrap. Sample 1 is medium to large in quantity of bone. Only diagnostics were fully recorded - the scrap has been counted and weighed as 'flot frags'. It contains a bit of dog hindlimb, and a piece of equid limb, but is mostly sheep/goat. Condition, etc. are similar to the rest of the material.Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 4 Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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