Unit 20404

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Infill (Arbitrary layer) 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 1,8 (NS) x 3,0 (EW) x 0.3 m 

 

Discussion: This unit consisted of room infill and was an arbitrary layer undifferentiated from the unit above (and the unit below). The layer consisted of a heterogeneous layer of garbage: clay, loam, ash, charcoal, calcium carbonate, plaster, brick, unworked stone (not much), and extensive faunal deposits than include significant amounts of large animal (mostly auroch, but also sheep, goat) bones which consist of big bones (humerus, vertebrae, horns, etc) some of which are articulated with one another. This unit also includes the deposit formerly identified as 20403 (fire concentration), which is incorporated into this unit as secondary refuse deposit with a slightly higher occurance of burned material, but which likely constitutes a dump of material rather than an in situ occurance/event. The north and south walls within this context begin to demonstrate significant undercutting with replastering. Some of the undercuts are 10-14 cm into the wall. A significant amount of burned and unburned bone were found under these undercuts and were bagged separately within the hand sieved faunal collection (this may be unwarranted, but it seemed significant at the time). The north wall, in addition to having an undercut, appears to have a vertical cut that creates an alcove of sorts that is cut all the way back to the 2nd wall found at the north of this space. The alcove is also infilled with the same material found in this unit. A number of the animal bones found against the walls (X=19, X=8) may have been plastered, or partially plastered into the walls. The bucranium, or more likely frontlet in the southwest corner of the building indicated that the tips, which were both in contact with the walls, may have been partially plastered over. It was difficult to tell if this was a purposeful installation, or a phenomenom of the plaster peeling from the walls and covering anything that was in contact with it. We took several photographs. 

 

Recognition: Heterogeneous mix of clay, ash, brick, charcoal, calcium carbonate, with high concentrations of animal bone 

Definition: Infill of Sp. 87 (Now Building 114), under infill 19475 

Execution: Trowel and Mattock 

Condition: Dry 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Brownish Yellow 

Texture: Silty Sandy Clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Faunal bone, Plaster, Charcoal, Brick 

Post-depositional Features: Rodent Runs 

Basal Boundary: Diffuse and Irregular 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20488 below: (Click to view the record) 19475 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20403 

 

Dry sieve volume: 1480 

Total Deposit Volume: 1516 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 19

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: 46 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

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

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:: 115

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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