Unit 15355
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: fill of post-Neolithic pit
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: The unit was recognised in the section south of Space 454, it was unclear in plan. The soil was full of inclusions - artefacts and different sorts of material including charcoal and lime. The southeast corner appeared to have another pit cutting in this pit, where the possible coin was discovered, there was a pottery concentration and where there was a charcoal line defining a change in soil colour from greyish brown to yellow in the southeast. Further down, near the base, the whole southern edge had many layers of different fills including charcoal, lime and an orange material. It was later discovered beneath this a line of Byzantine mud bricks that stretches from the eastern to western side of the pit. It is thought to be a burial. Excavation of this unit finished as the burial was discovered, along with a clearly defined edge of the fill of the pit over Space 454 which was half excavated last year. A piece of worked bone and a piece of metal was found directly above or even within the mud brick layer of the burial.
Recognition: arbitrary layer of pit F.3331 and above burial south of Space 454, recognised in section
Definition: loose soil, clear in section south of Space 454, fill with frequent inclusions
Execution: pick, shovel, trowel, hoe
Condition: under shelter
Consistency: soft
Colour: greyish brown to dark brown with yellowish brown inclusions, southern side base later marked by orange mud brick
Texture: silt
Bedding: heterogenous fill with flecks of lime and charcoal, and four large stones
Inclusions: pottery, animal bone, human bone, shell, obsidian, stone, burned mud
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: arbitrary, flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 2280
Total Deposit Volume: 2280
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 7
Number of Related Diary Entries: 7
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
| Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window) |
| Buildings: none |
| Spaces: none |
| 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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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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