Unit 1526
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: wall
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous
Description: For brick and mortar description, see section Mell 34 and 96/60
Discussion: North-South party wall - space 107 to West and 106 to East. To the North, the wall is associated with cut filled by 1561. The fill was continuous with the wall, but no obvious bricks were visible. Possibly a clayey consolidation for the load bearing corner of the structure, or a foundation deposit cut because it contained an equid scapula! To the South the wall stepped down, probably terracing down or for consolidation in soft midden deposits. No North-South cut was found, but considering wall 51 to the West has very shallow and narrow cuts, we may have missed the cuts for this wall. Contains feature 62, an opening later blocked and represented by feature 59. Therefore, at one phase, spaces 106 and 107 were interlinked, later blocked as separate units. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry seive
Execution: small mattock
Condition: hot and dry
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Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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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:: 6
Unit description: This is the contents of a foundation trench below a wall dividing spaces 106 and 107. This trench had an equid scapula that may be a foundation deposit: 1561.X1. So this would be the matrix of this possible special deposit. It does not look particularly unusual, but like a bit of redeposited midden. It is a moderate sized unit, with almost as much large mammal as sheep-size. Taxa include sheep/goat, cattle and equid in roughly equal amounts, dog, fox, a bit of bird, and one probably amphibian long bone shaft. Body part distribution is fairly even, but pelvis is totally lacking. Range of ages in the more frequent taxa. Surface condition is somewhat variable: none is very fresh, but some are in quite good shape while others are more worn. Very little burning, a little gnawing, some digestion. Fragmentation is moderate, with some fairly large fragtments. There is a fragment of a repaired needle. No flotation sample that we can find. Rough DZ count: O/C - 5.5, Bos - 1.5, Equus - 2 (MNI= 2), Vulpes - .2 Only measurable, worked, and bird bone recorded.Figurine 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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