Unit 15809

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: floor 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Dimensions: 2.40 x 1.90 x 0.01 

 

Discussion: This is a floor of western space (325) of Building 74. It is floor placed underneath an infill 15261 and on top of the make up layer 15887. It was delimited by walls of the space recorded as units: 15225 (N), 13578 (S), 15298 (E) and 13579 (W). On the top of the floor five cattle mandibles, two scapula, one skull, one rib and two horn cores were placed. The floor is relatively thin with silty texture and no replastering is recorded. In eastern part of the space 325 just west to the eastern wall (15289) a small buttress was placed on the top of the floor. 

 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: floor 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, windy 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: grey, white 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: bones, obsidian, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15877 below: (Click to view the record) 15261 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 8250 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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: 41 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 74

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 325

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3151 (floors)

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 2008 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 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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