Unit 15281

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 2.80 x 1.00 x 0.28 m 

 

Discussion: This is a part of arbitrarily divided midden layer situated in the Western part of Building 73. From N-W it was truncated by Mellaart cut in the 1960s. From the south it abutted the wall recorded asd unit 15225. The midden contained a number of constructional elements, probably destroyed fragment of the wall recorded as unit 15225. This midden contained a large amount of inclusions (in particular animal bones). 

 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: midden layer 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, windy 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: dark grey, brown 

Texture: silty clay to sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian, shell, cristal, flint, plaster, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: rodents 

Basal Boundary: distinct, wavy 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15847 below: (Click to view the record) 15234 equal to: (Click to view the record) 15234, 15282 

 

Dry sieve volume: 687 

Total Deposit Volume: 712 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 11

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 14 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 72

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 435

Features:: (Click to view the record) 6015 (pit)

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

Ceramics Data for 2007 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 2

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 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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