Unit 1612
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden with collapse
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 2.40m E/W 1.90m N/S
Discussion: Upper fill of room/space 116. Probably still midden material, but with some demolition/collapse of walls mixed in.
Execution: trowel
Condition: hot, dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: 2.5y 3/3 dark olive brown
Texture: clayey sandy silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: <2% charcoal, bone, chalk, obsidian, clay balls, pot, figurine, mortar/ mudbrick frags
Post-depositional Features: eastern extent most likely truncated by mellaart
Basal Boundary: dumped indistinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds 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
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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:: 244
Unit description: Unit 1612, a dump with some construction debris, contained a moderate amount of bone from the dry sieve although the amount volume of the deposit is not given. Additionally, the 4mm flotation sample couldn't be found. The material from the dry sieve was well fragmented, a very high proportion of it had been digested and the occasional bone had been burnt within a wide range of temperatures. The animals represented by the remains are caprine, pig, cattle, equid and dog. The material was not overwhelming dominated by caprine like in some deposits and bones from the other species, except dog, were all well represented. The carpals, tarsals, skull frags and phalanges are well represented whilst the major meat bearing bones are considerably lower in number. However, fragmented long bone shafts and ribs are present in high proportions. Additionally, there was a large amount of pieces that were unidentifiable. It seems that that the deposit could be the domestic refuse that had been considerably worked over by dogs. The lack of elements identifiable to the meat bearing could have been caused by there complete digestion, whilst the bones of greater density, the lower limb elements and shaft fragments, survived with only there surface condition affected. Last number = 244Figurine 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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