Unit 2224

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Room fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: 1998
The clay bead (X.2) was found in an animal hole that is in between the bricks of the E-wall of Space 89.
25/7/98
A burial was discovered that was dug into unit 2224. It disturbed the E-side of 2224 (ie. Space 89) as well as its outside wall. The burial is Feature 158. 

 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/2 - 5/3 greyish brown - brown 

Texture: loamy sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: none, but its really sandy 

Post-depositional Features: N/A 

Basal Boundary: N/A 

 

Dry sieve volume: 210 

Total Deposit Volume: 210 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

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: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 89

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:: 108  Unit description: A small-medium sized unit. Fragmentation fairly high - most pieces in the 3 cm range but some larger pieces - meaning that there are few diagnostics. Lots of modern breaks. Weathering mostly at stage 2-3, with a very few at higher stages. Low proportion burnt (most black and grey, a couple calcined). One piece is heavily carnivore gnawed, 2 pieces digested, suggesting low carnivore activity in this unit. Mostly 03 size animals, with maybe a quarter 07 size. Of 03, most diagnostics are sheep/goat with one dog metapodial and a med. Carnivore femur; of 07 size, there are 2 cattle carpals, and some cattle teeth. Also, lots of crumbles of deer antler, probably all the same one. For 03 element range includes long bones, ribs and vertebrae, forelimb, hindlimb and skull. 07 range is long bones, vertebrae and ribs, tarsals and skull pieces. The lack of fore and hind limb long bones may be due to small numbers. Generally this unit seems to represent processing and consumption waste, fairly heavily processed with pieces not as big as in middens, but not as small as classic fill, but somewhere in between. Material doesn't appear reworked. It has a plastery film on which gives initial appearance of being in bad condition, but it's actually quite well preserved and fresh underneath. Little integrity to the sample, indicating multiple origins, but maybe not that much movement/disturbance afterwards? Large (2cm) piece of eggshell from this unit, plus a small bag of odd human bones, passed on to human bone lab.

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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