Unit 2209

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Midden,Pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Description: This unit has two distinct layers. The soil description for each are below; the upper layer description is before the slash, and the lower layer soil description is after the slash. 

 

Discussion: At first we thought this dark ashy soil in the south half of this unit may be a bin but it was all collected as one unit --contamination -- so near surface. As the excavation of this unit proceeds the black soil is very very loose and dusty and seems to cut the brick room fill. This pit stretches throughout the quad.

31.7. 1998
Baulk contaning this unit material also taken down, 3 mussel shells found and a lump of charcoal. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool, sunny, after rain, dry, patches of moist soil 

Consistency: Weak/weak 

Colour: 10YR 6/2 / 10 YR 4/2 

Texture: silt loam / silt loam 

Bedding: massive / massive 

Inclusions: small amts. of bone; clay inclusions (<2%) a very little charcool: roots finaly common (<10%) / bone inclusions (<5%), very little shell (<2%) and stone (<1%), charcoal (<2%) 

Post-depositional Features: roots are common / lots of roots and bugs 

Basal Boundary: basal boundary defined by the lower layer / arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2214, 2216 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2203 

 

Dry sieve volume: 341 

Total Deposit Volume: 371 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 86

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: Yes Count of records:: 341  Unit description: Medium-large unit coming from an arbitrary layer within the midden in the space 86. Mostly sheep-size, few large mammal bones. Large mammal is mostly cranial. Fragments of ?Bos cranium. Fragments of horn cores, but not a lot. 20 % burnt (carbonized and calcined). Various weathering. ID: sheep cranial and postcranial, few bird, micromammals and cattle remains. At least 4 juvenile and one adult Ovis/Capra. One of them identified as Ovis on the base of right and left branch of mandible probably from a single animal. Broken in many pieces (recent breaks), but a fragment of a left branch shows old break. Possibly broken when thrown into the midden. X4 Bos primigenius mandibula. Jaw bone could not be reconstructed and is packed in a bag with an explanatory label, while three molars are reconstructed. Both sheep/goat and cattle phalanges are highly fragmented, although not gnawed or digested. Bone grease? Looks like midden, with more deterioration than most due to proximity to ground surface. Samples 1 and 3 >4 mm flotation 100% sorted; only diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. Sample 1 is largish and looks generally like the unit as a whole, with a variety of taxa and body parts, although little if any horn core. Some microfauna, eggshell, mussel shell, and a burnt small bird tarsometatarsus. Rather fragmented and worn, but some larger chunks. Sample 3 is smaller and has less large mammal. Last number = 345

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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