Unit 20403
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Burned Area,Fire Spot
Data Category Information: Description: fire spots (non-structured); Deposition: heterogeneous
Dimensions: .75 (N/S) x 1.10 (E/W) x 0.35 m
Discussion: Initially this unit was identified as a burned concentration that was identifiable by higher occurances of charcoal, ash, burned brick, and burned bone.
Further excavation indicated that this was not a discrete concentration, but merely the makeup of the next unit that was stratigraphically lower: Unit 20404.
This unit was initially defined as a patchy, circular area with a concentration of burned material. It included high inclusions of charcoal, burned bone, brick and rock, and diffuse amounts of ash. Three bricks were identified along the northwest extent. Three pieces of burned pottery (identified by the priority tour as typical cooking ware) were located along the Northeastern edge. Throughout the matrix a number of faunal bone were identified, including a large auroch vertebrae and a horn core, which were taken as x-finds. Interpretation of this unit shifted from a fire spot (initially) to a concentration of burned material that was part of the infill matrix and represented a secondary refuse dump, rather than an in situ fire event. We therefore changed the category to SAME AS Unit 20404 and merge this deposit with the infill within the rest of the building. Note that the horn core located in this area was partially located under the south unit wall where it had been undercut and replastered.
Recognition: Colour, composition, consistency. Concentration of burned materials: ash, charcoal, brick, stone, bone
Definition: Fire Spot. Edges with what appears to be surrounding infill.
Execution: Trowel Brush.
Condition: Dry
Consistency: Soft
Colour: Gray/Brown/Black/Red
Texture: Silty Sandy Clay
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: Faunal Bone, Burned Clay, Charcoal
Post-depositional Features: Animal Disturbance
Basal Boundary: Diffuse
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 40
Total Deposit Volume: 70
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 36 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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