Unit 16422

Category: Cluster    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: cluster of animal bone 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition

Discussion: Animal bone cluster mixed within layer 16418 (heavy clay). The cluster is located at the northern end of space 337. The cluster included a large scapula of an aurox, part of the cranium (also aurox), some burnt horn core and part of a pelvis. 

Recognition: animal bone spread through layer 

Definition: clear, well embedded in clay 

Execution: trowel excavated and conservation (on site) 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: mid greyish brown 

Texture: clayey silt 60%-40% 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: occasional bones and bricks (and cluster) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: clear, irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16457 below: (Click to view the record) 16416 equal to: (Click to view the record) 16418 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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