Unit 18326
Category: Layer dug in 2009
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: N-S 1.9m / E-W 1.8m / thickness 0.1-0.15cm
Discussion: third spit of room fill in Space 310. Fill very heterogeneous, soft soil and hard clay lumps. Contains a lot of pottery, animal bones, a lot of lumps of different kinds of clay red pigments; some red pigments, pieces of white chalk/ lime, unfired pottery, one piece of red painted plaster in the SE corner. There are harder spots, such as the South, and looser spots, such as the NW and SE corners. Spots of red soil in the SE corner.
SE corner does contain finds, but fewer than the rest of the space and smaller sherds/ bones - nevertheless still a lot!
Recognition: limited by walls and south sections
Definition: clear
Execution: pick, trowel
Condition: hot
Consistency: loose; clay lumps hard; some very loose spots
Colour: dark grey-brownish; clay lumps yellow, grey and orange; spots of red soil
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: very heterogeneous
Inclusions: a lot of pottery, animal bones, clay lumps / few shell, lime, charcoal, obsidian, stone
Post-depositional Features: root action / animal burrows were removed beforehand
Basal Boundary: arbitrary - flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 1000
Total Deposit Volume: 1032
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5
Number of Related Diary Entries: 8
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 2009 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 40 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
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