Unit 2242
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Pit fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 60cm x 30 cm
Discussion: In the sketch, there is a border line of a possible cut into unit 2230. The fill contained black dirt that was interlanced with white striations and yellow and orange blubs of building debris. It contained charcoal bits at the extent of less then 5%. This looks similar to other deposits that are on the same height in units on the other side of the excavation area-possible midden debris. The unit is temporarily finished at the border with yellowish sandy, more concrete, bottom (compact earth). It is hard to tell what this is that looked as different fill represents. This is maybe influenced by the later historical grave above this area.
Consistency: weak
Colour: 10YR 4/2 dark grayish brown
Texture: Silty loam
Bedding: Compound layered
Inclusions: White clay flecks (5-10%), mud brick (<2%), bone (<2%), yellow-orange clay (30%), charcoal (5%) irregular shape interlaced distribution
Post-depositional Features: Some roots (<2%), rodents
Basal Boundary: Uneven, may be dumped-distinct and diffuse
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
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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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:: 47
Unit description: A small unit with no diagnostics at all from the dry sieve, and just two from the 4mm. Dry sieve material consists of a few 03 and 07 size long bone and rib fragments, and indeterminates. A few are burnt black, and one calcined. Surface condition is fair - stage 3, and fragment sizes are some 3cms but with a couple of bigger pieces of 5 and 6 cm. 4mm sample 1 has a similar range, with a sheep/goat size distal femur and sheep/goat phalanx 2, digested, and an 03 sesamoid. There are also 03 skull frags and a sheep/goat horn core fragment. Lots of indeterminates. If this is pit fill as the unit sheet describes, it seems that very scrappy material went into the pit, probably consumption/processing debris from various sources, that had not been hanging around on the surface for long, and was quickly covered.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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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