Unit 15847
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: TP
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 4.20 x 1.10 x 0.17
Discussion: This is a midden layer deposited against the nort walls of space 325 in Building 74 recorded as units 13591 and 15227. It is placed underneath the rubble of bricks recorded as unit 15846. It contains fr of destroyed bricks and ashy lenses. Big amount of organic material especially bones has been recorded in this unit. It was finished arbitrarly.
Recognition: colour, consistency
Definition: midden
Execution: trowel
Condition: hot, dry
Consistency: friable
Colour: brownish, black, dark brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: bones, obsidian, pottery, shell, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: rodents, roots
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 498
Total Deposit Volume: 523
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 12
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 Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 5 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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