Unit 17214
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: Room Fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 2m x 1.9m
Discussion: This unit is an arbitrary layer of the roomfill of space 310. It contains pottery, bones, obsidian, grindstones, and flint artefacts. The roomfill consists of brown soil, clusters of plaster and mortar as well as fragments of mudbrick. Sometimes you can spot red palster line in the roomfill, but it is of unknown context. Maybe this room was used as a rubbish place after it was abandoned. The lowest point of this unit is about 20cm below the plaster of the walls and its still not the bottom of the room/space. The ceramic cluster (17208) (17241) and (17242) are placed at the walls of this room.
Recognition: arbitrary layer, highest point is defined by disappearance of plaster at walls
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel, pickaxe, handshovel
Condition: hot,windy, under shelter.
Consistency: very compact
Colour: pale yellow/grey with dark brown intrusion
Texture: silt, large conglomeration
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: bone, sherds, obsidian, red plaster fragments, shells, flint, grindstone.
Post-depositional Features: root action, massive bioturbation
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 11
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
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:: 2 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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