Unit 1520

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)

 

Discussion: Layer of dumps in" midden" area. The interface between 1520 and the layer below was easy to discern in places, particularly to the North where a dump of ash had singed the surface of the layer below and ash had spread around for a considerable distance. Layer is cut to the West by 1043 and may have been eroded away to the East by Mellaart's activities. The North edge is arbitrary, to leave in section. South edge is against the wall but disturbed by animal burrows (see sketch). The dump was different from its predecessors in having a lot less finds (apart from jewellery!) The contrast particularly in clay balls (almost none) between this layer and in the fill cut 1043. 

 

Consistency: varies (moderatly weak- moderately firm 

Colour: 2.5Y 3/3 dark olive brown 

Texture: clay loam 

Bedding: compound, not layered. A series of dumps. 

Inclusions: bone- mostly from a large beast (2%); pottery, clay ball fragments, flint, obsidian. (<2%); charcoal (2%-5%); shell, stone (< 2%). 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation from roots throughout. Ocasional mole rat runs. 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, dumped, wavey. Reasonabley distinct in places, less so in others. 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1563 below: (Click to view the record) 1524 

 

Dry sieve volume: 480 

Total Deposit Volume: 586 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 115

Features:: none

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 172  Unit description: 2 Cattle DNA samples (distal metapodial): X4/Sample 4, X5/Sample 5. Bone ring/pendant with knob. Metapodial point. The material from the dry sieve had suffered from a high proportion of modern breaks. However, predepositional breaks show that the bone was moderately fragmented. Dog gnawed and digested bone are present in low proportions compared to some other midden deposits and burning is also minimal. Taxa represented include caprines, cattle, equid, cervids and fox. Both sizes of cattle were present and one distal humerus from a larger animal had had part of the trabecular bone scooped out to form a dish shape. Large cervid was represented by fragmented pieces of antler, with modern breaks that appear to have come from one antler which had not been shed and cut marks were visible on the frontal bone encircling the antler. The surface of the antler itself was smooth possibly indicating that it was fallow rather than red deer. A scapula possibly from a roe deer is also present in the material from the dry sieve. Two, 4mm, 100% sorted, flotation samples were recorded for diagnostics only. Sample #1 was mainly made up of non-diagnostic pieces from 03 sized animals. Sample #2 was similar, but one fish vertebra was recovered from this material and there seems to be a slightly higher proportion of digested bone. Last number = 168, then X5

Figurine Records: No

Ground Stone Records: Yes Count of records:: 4

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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