Unit 1579
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: demolition
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 2.50m N/S, 5m E/W
Discussion: Very uneven mixed layer of building demolition/collapse and basal midden material. More demolition material at the north-east where it mixes with the midden material.
Execution: handpick, trowel
Condition: hot, dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: 2.5y 3/3 dark olive brown
Texture: silty clay loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: >10% brick mortar frags >2% pot, bone, clay balls, stones, shell, charcoal, obsidian.
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: dumped, distinct in places less distinct at N/W , wavey
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 360
Total Deposit Volume: 408
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:: 246
Unit description: 2 DNA samples: cattle metapodia, X3 + X4. X1 is an antler pendant. X2 is a piece of cattle horn core. There was substantial amount of dry sieve material from unit 1579. Size categories 03, 05 and 07 were all well represented with most of the material consisting of long bone shaft and rib fragments. Elements representing different areas of the body were present in approximately normal proportions. As well as being highly fragmented, the bone displayed little weathering, but digested bone was common and burnt bone formed about 2-3% of the unit and was mostly small pieces of bone burnt to low temperatures. The identfiable material was mostly caprine, followed by pig, equid and cattle in slightly lower proportions. Fox was represented by a calcaneus fragment and fragmented antler showed the presence of deer, although none of these pieces were complete enough to be able to determine species. Overall the material has low integrity and seems to be from a general midden depost. Interesting finds included a fragment of a bone ring, a bone point with numerous cuts near the tip. Additionally one pathological cattle first phalanx seemed to be a congenital abnormality. 4mm. flotation sample 1, 100% sorted, was recorded for diagnostics only. Most of this sample was unidentifiable frags mainly from 03 sized animals but four vertebrae from very small fish were also present. Last number = F245Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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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