Unit 2091

Category: Cluster    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: owl pellet layer ? 

 

Data Category Information: Location: midden; Material: owl pellet; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: ochre

 

Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm, 0.14 m depth 

 

Discussion: Dense small microfauna in greyish brown silt loam with phytoliths.
<Microfauna well preserved with teeth still intact in jaws - suggestive of owl pellets according to Rissa Russell and Peter Andrews.
If analyses confirm that this layer is from owl pellets, it suggests a period of abandonment after deposition of red layer (2011)
There are variations across the layer with lenses of orange deposit ?derived form decayed bone of Peter Andrews SW; and fewer bone fragments in a layer with large strips of articulates phytoliths lying haphazardly / randomly in NE of deposit.
Deposit excavated in 10cm grid squares, and prised out in in tact lumps as far as possible along interface with underlying red deposit. The red deposit appears to be an upper layer of tow layers of red. Blocks of white plastered moulded shapes emerging below deposit.
2091 ?pellet deposit - varies in thickness from 0.5 to 2 cm 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: sunny, dry 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: 10 YR 6/2 light brownish grey 

Texture: silt loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: microfaunal bones 10%, variable 5-30%; phytoliths in NE 5%(locally 10%), well preserved c. 2-5 cm in length; charred plants 20%; organic orange lens in SW (see plan) dense microfaunal (30%) & hackberry pericarp (lentils) <2%; 

Post-depositional Features: salts, nodules <8mm, 10-20% 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2323 below: (Click to view the record) 2066, 1664, 2721 equal to:none 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19

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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Buildings: (Click to view the record) 2

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 116

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

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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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