Unit 2372
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 0.86 m E/W x 0.54 m N/S x 0.29 m deep
Discussion: Fill of post removal pit (2373). Mostly mixed building material, most likely similar to 1873 which sealed it. Contained horn core possibly removed from moulding above on post niche.
Execution: trowel and handpick
Condition: shaded
Consistency: firm
Colour: 2.5 Y 5/4 light olive brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: < 10 % building aggregates, plaster (layered), mudbrick and mortar, grey brown and white respectively, < 2 % charcoal and bone
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: distinct, dumped
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 23
Total Deposit Volume: 38
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
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:: 25
Unit description: X1 is a largish segment of cattle horn core. [2000]: Flotation sample 2 and a bag of dry sieved material were analysed in 2000 and hopefully complete this unit. It is fill from a post retrieval pit in building 2. The dry sieved material is dominated by large animal parts (this is unusual). There is a mandible, young teeth in bits of mandible, a large animal's thoracic vertebra and a cervical vertebra, a skull fragment, long bone fragments, and a bit of scapula, all from large (cattle-sized) animals. Bones of smaller animals include a juvenile humerus, some long bone fragments and a patella from sheep/goat, and a rib from a dog-sized animal. There are very few skull fragments, very few ends of long bones, very few ribs, and no feet. The bones do not seem heavily weathered, although they are very crumbly and have many modern breaks. There is no burning, no digestion, but some gnawing, mostly on the smaller animals' bones. None of the bones are articulating. The 4m sample has no diagnostics; one piece is digested and one is burned. This material does not look like a classic midden deposit, although it is probably post-consumption waste. It seems more like infill, which is logical because that is probably what fell into the pit after the post was removed. The only unusual thing is the preponderance of large animals over small ones. So does this mean that the horn core was also part of the building infill, or should we argue for a special, different origin for it just because it is a horn core? Last Number =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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