Unit 16696

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: North 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: Dirty floors 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

 

Discussion: Series of dirty floors and ashy rake out with some make up and plaster surfaces.

Deposits very porrly defined and hard to follow, despite days spent trying to do so. Basically this unit represents a number of interdigitating surfaces which had been truncated by people walking in and out of the building.

East and NE corner og the deposit poorly defined and relationship to SE platform F1662 not very clear. 

 

Recognition: loose ashy texture, seals 16689 at NW of deposit 

Definition: very poorly defined 

Execution: leaf 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: mid red brown - black 

Texture: ashy silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: freq: charcoal, ash lenses. Occa: obsidian flakes 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: poorly defined. Arbitary in places 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16689, 17400 below: (Click to view the record) 16684 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume: 24 

Number of Samples 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 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

49 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

100 
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
Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: No
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: No
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 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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