Unit 1969

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: packing under floor 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in-situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 155 x 120 cm depth 5 cm 

 

Discussion: Unit 1969 is a room (?) in the NE corner of house 1
Spit 1 cleaning of the dry white clay layer that remained from the 1996 season. This was mostly collapsed plaster.
Spit 2 - of the 5 cm layer under the floor packing with white clay i.e. plaster inclusions on the E side and burned clay deposits on the W side of the unit. A fragment of worked bone (a ring?)
Spit 3 - a displaced human bone, a fragment of painted plaster, a fragment of clay ball. Still mixed up deposits of underfloor packing.

I was digging mainly through packing that seemed to have been one depositional event. Random bits of bone (very few), a few of pottery and baked clay, but most interestingly a noticeable amount of natural clay lumps especially towards the bottom (obviously not collected) so worth mentioning. Lots of root disturbance & salts brought down by roots. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot & windy under tent 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 10YR 5/2 greyish-brown 

Texture: sitly clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: brown silty clay lumps, low variability, slightly moist <4cm, 2-5% 10YR 4/3, <2% bone, phytoliths <2% 

Post-depositional Features: lost of salts (5010%), roots (2-5%), 2 possible animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary boundary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2184, 2185, 2188, 2189, 2150, 2151, 2505etc, 2194, 2192, 2515, 2509 below: (Click to view the record) 1369 

 

Dry sieve volume: 110 

Total Deposit Volume: 139 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

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) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 71

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:: 1  Unit description: F1 is a bone ring fragment. Last number = 1

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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