Unit 1653
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 2.20m E-W x 1.70m N-S x 0.10-0.15m deep
Discussion: 'Midden' comprising lenses of ash & clay
Execution: trowel & pick
Condition: overcast & windy
Consistency: moderately weak
Colour: 2.5 Y 6/2 light brownish grey
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: 5% charcoal >3mm, small concretions of salt 40%, 10% salt (generally), 5% plaster, > 3cm, 2% small stones, 5% coprolites, 5%phytoliths
Post-depositional Features: 10% roots
Basal Boundary: diffuse smooth anthropogenic / sedimentological boundary. Sloping in east-north axis, clear boundary underline, in some places boundary is marked by white salting.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 200
Total Deposit Volume: 237
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10
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:: 5
Unit description: Bone point. 2014 Update: 2014 recording protocol. Dry sieve material. >4mm, 100%. A small unit. Mostly cattle and sheep size, although cattle size is more predominant. Cattle size fragments come from cranial, axial, limbs and feet (including long bone shafts, proximal femur, cranial fragments, upper teeth, vertebrae, phalanx). Among these, the upper molar tooth have been speciated to cattle. Cattle size fragment size for cattle varies between 2 and 16 cm, mode is 4-5 cm. All body parts are present in sheep size elements. Sheep/goat fragments in this category come from upper teeth, mandible with lower decidous teeth (including dp4) (sub-bagged), ulna, proximal radius, proximal femur, unfused proximal tibia (infantile/subadult), proximal metapodial, unfused ilium (infantile), carpals/tarsals, and phalanges. Fragment size for the sheep size specimens varies between 1 and 9, mode is 2-3 cm. Other taxa: equid lower tooth, equid MT II shaft (in ID bag). The fragments in this unit have mostly old breaks. This unit is not very coherent, it seems to come from multiple origins. However, I should note that the majority of the bones (IDs and scrap) are long bone shaft splinters. Therefore part of this unit may come from a post consumption deposit. Flot 448, S1: similar to the dry sieve in that it consists of sheep size and cattle size fragment. There are not any diagnostics except a sesamoid which won’t get recorded. Gnawing, burning and surface condition is also similar to the dry sieve. Dry sieve and flot overall: In addition to containing many long bone fragments, this unit contains very few sheep/goat phalanges and sesamoids. Cranial elements are also not too many. The number of long bones and the lack of primary butchery remains supports the post consumption deposit suggestion. Also, for a small and incoherent unit, the average fragment size is slightly large (see fragment modes above). Overall, it looks like this unit is incoherent, may include post consumption deposits from a multiple events. Recorded material is sub-bagged and kept with the unrecoded bones according to the 2014 protocol. Last number: 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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