Unit 15407
Category: Layer dug in 2007
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Description: Trench 9
Discussion: The midden was overall ashy, but there were some particularly burnt places, such as in the northern area and in the south east corner. There were lots of burnt bones as well. The midden layer was quite thin and came onto room fill (15469). The midden layer (15407) was also truncated by the grave cut [15436] to the west.
Recognition: midden
Definition: clear
Execution: mattock, trowel, hoe
Condition: hot and breezy
Consistency: loose and friable
Colour: dark grey with lots of ash
Texture: silty
Bedding: massive, possible layered
Inclusions: very frequent bone; occasional stone, obsidian, clay ball; very occasional figurines (x1), pottery
Post-depositional Features: bioturbation, burial cut
Basal Boundary: clear onto room fill
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 270
Total Deposit Volume: 294
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ?
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 Ceramics Data for 2007 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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