Unit 16489

Category: Cluster    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: bone cluster 

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

Discussion: Cluster of stone and bone in frony of crawl hole or niche on northern wall space 336 - the cluster includes three antlers, cattle jaw, broken bone (?), tortoise shell and stone

*The antler and bone were originally recorded as x-finds in 16479 so show up trice on unit sheets

*The stones from this layer have since been allocated their own cluster number as they, unlike the antler, were located directly on the floor of the northern platform.

Dimensions calculated using CAD (22/07/09)-ms


*The cluster is classed priority- only X9 was block lifted. 

Recognition: group of objects within fill 

Definition: clear - well-defined 

Execution: cleaned, photographed, planned, lifted 

Condition: hot and dry 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15709 below: (Click to view the record) 16479, 16481 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

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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