Unit 18311

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: Trench 5 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: EW 3.5m / NS 3.0m / depth 0.15m 

 

Discussion: This unit is a spit in the flecky deposit spanning from 16896 to 18311, including 18309. 18311 started after the upper edge of the mudbrick 18310 (F.3300) had been defined along wall 2424. Possible deposit of a bone abutting buttress F.5063 includes mandible and 'fleshy' section of another long bone, plus some articulated; afeasting deposit, as it is known on the east? 

 

Recognition: towards 18310 colour of soil; towards 18309 arbitrary choice; towards 18328 colour 

Definition: to 18310 clear, to 18328 clear 

Execution: pick and trowel 

Condition: moderate 

Consistency: as 18309: hard white chalk lumps (50%) and burnt mudbrick 

Colour: see 16896 and 18309: yellow lumps in looser grey-brown soil 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: lumpy = heterogeneous 

Inclusions: ceramics, bone, plaster, small numbers of phytoliths, burned mudbrick, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance 

Basal Boundary: reasonably clear with browner 18328 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18328 below: (Click to view the record) 18309 equal to: (Click to view the record) 18309, 16896 

 

Dry sieve volume: 359 

Total Deposit Volume: 389 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 13

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 13

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 39 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 105

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 342

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 2009 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 49

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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