Unit 20627

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Discussion: Infill of Sp.87 consisting on an heterogeneous silty clay loam with numerous inclusions of both organic remains and construction materials. Large patches of disaggregated, re-deposited ashes have been found throughout the unit.
Packed clusters of mixed animal (cattle, sheep/goat, pig) and human bones belonging to different individuals have been encountered towards the base of the southern part of the excavated area, most of them lying directly on top of the plaster floor (U.20628). These remains consist mostly of ribs, vertebrae, clavicles and pelvis parts.
In the NW quadrant of the excavated area the cranium of a juvenile individual (Sk.20682) was found lying on its left side. No burial cut was found: the remains were dumped into the infill.
This heterogeneous infill seems to have formed as a result of dumping event(s). 

 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Yellowish brown 

Texture: Silty clay, few sandy patches 

Bedding: Compound layered, unoriented, South inclination (ca. 30º) 

Inclusions: Phytoliths (<1% abundance), charcoal (5% abundance), mudbricks (10-15% abundance), mortar (1-5% abundance), rocks (1% abundance), plaster fragments (1% abundance), shell fragments (<1% abundance), obsidian flakes (<1% abundance), oven and hearth fragments (1-5% abundance), human and animal bones (20% abundance). 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation (insects and rodents) 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, very sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20628, 20696, 20912, 20914 below: (Click to view the record) 19570 equal to: (Click to view the record) 19570 

 

Dry sieve volume: 250 

Total Deposit Volume: 276 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 11

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: 8 (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 2013 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 2

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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