Unit 1657

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: ash lens 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Discussion: Multiple lenses of rubbish lying on tip lines from East to West. Included several patches and lenses of coprolite of various types sampled for analysis. An attempt to follow the general tip lines was made but the quantity of lenses makes it very difficult therefore, an approximately genuine slope was stopped at. This was quite clear in the slope of the finds. To the North, the area was very ashy. The various lenses peeled off beautifully and quite often interfaced with seed phytoliths. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, morning sun 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: variable ash, clay, plaster, coprolite. 10YR 3/2 (very dark grey brown)/ 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow)/ 2.5Y 7/8 yellow 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: 30% charcoal (>4mm); 10% chalk frags.(>1mm); 10% phytoliths; 10% plaster (>1cm); 5% burnt clay fragments (>5mm) 

Post-depositional Features: 20% small roots 

Basal Boundary: very difficult to follow changes in accumulated deposits. Irregular, interrupted boundary with discontinuous horizons, sloping East to West 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1670, 1669 below: (Click to view the record) 1659 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1661 

 

Dry sieve volume: 290 

Total Deposit Volume: 327 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9

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 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 115

Features:: none

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

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: Four bone tools, + X1, a sturdy bone point. Last number = 4

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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