Unit 21659
Category: Layer dug in 2015
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Midden deposit (clay lens)
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: finely bedded
Discussion: 21659 is a clay layer between two silty charcoal layers in the midden in space 490. This layer may have been placed on top of the existing midden as a way of managing the smell of waste, because the clay is packed and seems to have been placed intentionally across the full extent of the surface. Upon excavating this layer, it became evident that there were multiple adjacent clay/charcoal layers, and in some areas we took down charcoal as well as clay in an attempt to stay on the same layer across the surface of the midden. We excavated this layer using trowels.
Consistency: Firm, loose
Colour: Light gray, dark gray
Texture: clay, silt
Bedding: Compound layered
Inclusions: Charcoal, clay, bone
Post-depositional Features: Animal burrowing
Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, change in accumulated deposits, abrupt
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 200
Total Deposit Volume: 227
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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 Ceramics Data for 2015 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 19 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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