Unit 16495
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: clay layer
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Discussion: Heavy clay deposit covering NE Platform.
Primary fill or collapse. It is possible that this material was deliberately placed to protect the NE platform. Although the high content of charcoal suggests other wise, this deposit seems to have supported and protected the decorative elements on the NE platform (the cattle horns.
*NB - This deposit seems more akin to the material in the bins in the storage room 337.
Recognition: colour and texture
Definition: clear to sharp onto plastered platform
Execution: trowel
Condition: hot and dry
Consistency: firm to compact
Colour: mid reddish brown with white and black mottering
Texture: slightly clay silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: moderate charcoal ; occasional burnt structural timbers; occasional bone (bone and animal); occasional obsidian and flint.
Post-depositional Features: animal borrows
Basal Boundary: clear onto architectural features
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 435
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
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:: 54 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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