Unit 1886

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: <0.11m thick 

 

Discussion: general layer covering all of space 113 except for 'platform' area. It has a quite definite and distinct surface with heavy cracking which slopes quite steeply downwards to the west. It presumably some form of temporary surface but there is no noticeable or detectable activity areas apart from obsidian cluster 2007 the make up of the layer appeared quite sterile. 

 

Execution: trowel and handpick 

Condition: warm and bright 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10yr 5/3 brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: <2% small charcoal and plaster lenses 

Post-depositional Features: some root and insect activity 

Basal Boundary: gradual faint sloping downwards to west 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2030, 2005, 2852 below: (Click to view the record) 1897, 1893 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2007 

 

Dry sieve volume: 210 

Total Deposit Volume: 262 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 4

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 151

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: Yes Count of records:: 22  Unit description: A very small unit - only 10 frags. Only 1 diagnostic (O/C calcaneum), but others mainly from 03 size (ribs, one with cuts, long bone fragments), and a single 07 size. Last record = F7. 2, 4mm flotation samples were also fully recorded, both samples #2 and #3 were very small. Flotation sample #2 contained two deciduous teeth of a dog. Last number = 22

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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