Unit 20460
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Arbitrary midden layer
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 2.8m N-S x 2.4m E-W x 0.15 m thick
Discussion: This is another arbitrary layer in the midden filling the space below building 108. The only difference to the previous two layers was that this layer was clearly laminated at the bottom. During excavation yet another wall was discovered (F.3679). The midden seems to be accumulated against a yellow clay layer alongside it. The part of the layer between the newly discovered wall F.3646 and the wall to the north, F. 3626 seems to be of a different kind - more greyish, firmer and with fewer inclusions. The northern meter of the unit is probably more of an infill layer.
Excavated as an arbitrary 0.15 m thick spit layer (Z1012.55-1012.40).
Recognition: Arbitrary layer of midden different colour than around.
Definition: Up to a wall in N, up to a section in W, up to cut in E, and up to excavated unit in S
Execution: trowel and mattock
Condition: dry and hot
Consistency: soft and friable
Colour: dark grey, blackish, with yellow clay inclusions
Texture: Silty loam and clay
Bedding: massive at the top and layerd at the bottom sloping sligthtly to east, midden: black, grey and orange layers about 5 thick
Inclusions: abundent artefacts (chipped stone, clay balls and clay objects), organic (animal bone) and charcoal inclusions
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 980
Total Deposit Volume: 1004
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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:: 20 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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