Unit 16590
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external
Discussion: midden deposit. Respects the south face of b56 south wall (F2069). In part 16590 was with the underlying midden layer-the unit was split when fire spots/pits were encounterd. As such, there will be some cross contamination with the underlying midden.
Recognition: colour. Texture. Midden-like
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel and mattock
Condition: hot. Dry
Consistency: mod-compact. Friable
Colour: brownish mid-grey
Texture: clay-y sandy silt
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: freq ash. Freq charcoal lumps and flecks. Very freq phytoliths. Freq bone frags and large chunks
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows. Mellart truncation and horizontal truncation by construction/land associated with wall feature 134 (scraping)
Basal Boundary: clearn at southern end. Northern end diffuse
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 1570
Total Deposit Volume: 1596
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 49
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
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:: 737 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
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