Unit 1875

Category: Layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: cleaning 

 

Dimensions: whoe of 112 <50mm deep 

 

Description: heavy scrape (1-2 ") cleaning over exposed surface in 112 generally laminar in profile perhaps largely as a result of exposure and weathering. it included recent wash. 1875 also includes remnant plaster floors . An area of loose dark brown ash in the south part of 112 partly exposed after initial cleaning (1888) was further revealed. In the skull fragments and possibly post cranial human bones were exposed .
soil descriptions from 1880 and 1882 

 

Discussion: heavy scrape (1-2 ") cleaning over exposed surface in 112 generally laminar in profile perhaps largely as a result of exposure and weathering. it included recent wash. 1875 also includes remnant plaster floors . An area of loose dark brown ash in the south part of 112 partly exposed after initial cleaning (1888) was further revealed. In the skull fragments and possibly post cranial human bones were exposed .

No samples 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: fine sunny 

Consistency: generally firm 

Colour: 10yr 4/3 brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: < 5% brick and plaster aggregates, <2% charcoal, pebbles, obsidian. 

Post-depositional Features: modern roots 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary invisible 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2031, 2802, 2096, 2861, 2778, 2361, 2744, 2358, 2342, 1891 below: (Click to view the record) 1870 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1887, 2002, 2015 

 

Dry sieve volume: 300 

Total Deposit Volume: 300 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 50

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 112

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

Ceramic Records: No

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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