Unit 20465
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Arbitrary midden layer
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building
Dimensions: 2,8m NS x 2,4 EW x 0,15 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.2646 and the wall to the north f.3626 seems to be of a different kind- more greyish, firmer, and with fewer inclusions. The orthern meter of the unit is probably more of an infill layer.
Excavated as an arbitrary 0.15m thick spit layer (z 1012.40- 1012.25)
Recognition: Arbitrary layer of midden, different color than around.
Definition: Up to a wall in N, up to a section in W, clear in S and E.
Execution: trowel and mattock
Condition: dry and hot
Consistency: soft and friable with firm inclusions
Colour: dark grey, blackish, with yellow clay inclusions
Texture: Silty loam and clay
Bedding: layered sloping sligthtly towards the N and east, midden: black, grey and orange layers about 5cm thick
Inclusions: abundant artefacts (chipped stone, clay balls and clay objects), organic (animal bone) and charcoal inclusions
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: clear wavy anthropogenic boundary at SW part, arbitrary in the rest
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 720
Total Deposit Volume: 738
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 241 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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