Unit 1524
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 3.8m x 3.25m
Execution: trowel, mattock
Condition: hot,dry
Consistency: moderatly firm
Colour: 2.5Y 4/4 olive brown
Texture: sandy silt clay (and ash)
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: bone, pot, obsidian, flint, plaster, daub, stone, clay balls. All < 20%
Post-depositional Features: fissures with cut at East by Mellart, at West by 1043
Basal Boundary: dumped
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 95
Total Deposit Volume: 164
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
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:: 9
Unit description: Medium size midden unit made up of D.S and 2 bags of flotation (92) >4mm. Unit made up of large cattle size fragment and sheep size fragments (pelvis and shaft and rib fragments). The surface condition is variable with some indications of weathering, though mostly normal condition. Recordable species include cattle, horse and dog. There were minimal amounts of gnawing and burning present. Flotation included a fish bone, micofauna, two pieces of worked bone and a fragment of a bone ring. There were some recognizable sheep fragments and one recordable pig phalanx, but the majority of the flotation was scrap material. Scrap weight =94gramsFigurine Records: No 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
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