Unit 2165
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: levelling infill,midden
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 2 x 2 m
Description: from 2170
Discussion: Ashy infill - foundation infill for building 1
Execution: hand pick & trowel
Condition: hot & dry
Consistency: soft / loose
Colour: 10 YR 6/3 - 4/3 plae brown to brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: 30% 1-2cm sub-angular frags of charcoal; 2% bone frags
Post-depositional Features: animal intrusion
Basal Boundary: well defined interface with next layer
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 290
Total Deposit Volume: 329
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 145
Unit description: F1 is the tip of a bone point. F2 is a fragment of a bone ring. Also a piece of burnt worked antler, preform or waste. A small-medium unit, mostly well preserved. Certain amount of burning, both high and low temperature, but tending to high. Fair amount of digestion. Fairly fragmented, with few diagnostics, but not tiny pieces; in fact, a few very long splinters of sheep-size long bones. Mostly sheep-size, a little cattle and one pig tooth. The sheep-size bones seem fairly evenly distributed through the body. The only diagnostic large mammal bone is a cattle tooth; the large mammal scrap is sparse, but seems fairly evenly distributed through the body. Fragments seem too large and well-preserved to be packing; more like general post-consumption discard. Another small bag found later, so a second bag of scrap stored separately. Sample 2 has a small/medium amount of bone from the >4mm flot fragments, which are 100% sorted. Only the diagnostics are recorded since there are >100 records from the dry sieve. S2 has mainly sheep sized scrap (long bone, rib, vert, tooth frags and skull frags), with just a couple of frags of cattle size long bone frags. Condition is fair (weathering stages 2 and 3), fragmentation high, with most frags 1cm in length, and about 10% are burnt (most charred, a few calcined). Diagnostics are only a sheep/goat phalanx 1, a sheep/goat distal femur, a sheep sized sesamoid, and a small carnivore phalanx 2. This sample clearly has none of the diversity of the dry sieve material, and pieces also seem to be smaller, but condition of material is similar. This sample alone wouldn't seem inconsistent with interpretation of building infill. Last number = 145Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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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