Unit 2206

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Grave fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 0.62 x 2.14 m 

 

Description: A loose, gray-brown soil, which was very full of roots. Small bits of charcoal and larger chunks of building materials were included. The soil was quite dry. 

 

Discussion: The unit contained a complete, extended, and supine skeleton (#2219). A layer of flat mud(?) lay directly under the skeleton, but did not extend to the edges of it, and was excavated as part of the unit. This was interpreted as being due to water that seeped into the coffin and collected under the skeleton (Peter's theory?). The line of the coffin, studded with iron nails, was visible in the soil.

The whole of the soil from this unit was floated. <-actually, according to the unit sheet 75 litres of soil was dry sieved(?). 

 

Execution: trowel, dental tools 

Condition: dry, sunny 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 10YR 5/3 

Texture: Silty clay loam 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: charcoal, building materials, bone 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation - roots, rodents 

Basal Boundary: N/A 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2219 equal to:none 

 

Dry sieve volume: 75 

Total Deposit Volume: 291 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 86

Features:: (Click to view the record) 150 (burial)

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: Yes Count of records:: 153  Unit description: Smallish unit coming from a burial fill. Roots, building material, charcoal, bioturbation. Scraps: sheep size mostly, but a fair bit of Bos size, 10% burnt, some weathering. Surface condition is generally poor due to proximity to ground surface. All body parts present but short on ribs and toes. Quite fragmented; not all tiny pieces but mostly fairly small, up to ca. 4 cm. Redeposited and probably mixed. Frog, rodent, equid, cattle, sheep, and bird. >4mm flotation samples 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 100% sorted; only diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. Most look generally similar to the dry sieved material, with the addition of lots of little crumbles, which dominate the samples. Sample 7 is almost entirely human bone, which occurs in all the samples. Last number = 153

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 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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