Unit 1576
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Discussion: Very uneven midden deposit, sloping down from east to west, very similar to 1579 below. Slopes from NE down to SW
Execution: trowel, mattock
Condition: hot and dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: 2.5y 4/3 olive brown
Texture: sandy silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: <2%, charcoal, bone, pot, obsidian, mudbrick fragments, clayball fragments, stone, shell
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: dumped, wavy, indistinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 780
Total Deposit Volume: 820
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
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:: 284
Unit description: F 248 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014).
A fairly substantial amount of bone was recovered from unit 1576. The species represented by these were sheep/goat, cattle, equid, pig, dog, fox and two pieces of bird. Additionally a few fragments of antler, unidentifiable to species, showed the presence of deer. Overall, wild species are fairly well represented and this is similar to unit 1629, although caprines are still the most common taxa in both units. The condition of the bone, with minimal weathering, but high fragmentation indicates that the material is post-consumption waste. Dogs have gnawed some of the bone, and left digested bone but not in very high proportions unlike unit 1629. A further difference is the proportion of burnt bones, in unit 1576 approximately 15% of the bones had been exposed to low temperatures. The body parts are represented approximately in the correct proportions with the possible exception of scapula. Despite the fragile nature of these bones, the number from caprines appears high compared to other units, but not excessively so. A number of the bones could have come from one dog, including six articulated dog vertebrae, dog teeth at similar stages of development and probably articulated phalanges. Other interesting fragments include part of a bone ring and bone point. There was meant to be a 4mm flotation sample but this could not be found. Last number = F286Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 4 Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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