Unit 2387

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: redeposited 

Data Category Information: Description: animal burrow

Dimensions: 0.26 N-S x 0.18 m E-W x 30 mm thick 

Discussion: A small deposit full of flakes of bone - similar to horn core in situ, and therefore probably the same. The deposit was weak in structure with a clear basal boundary. It appeared to be a pocket of redeposited so8il possibly by animal action. The horn core in the wall has been used as an animal run, consequently only the shell survives. The question if whether this was done in antiquity as the house came to the end of its life or whether this is a post Mellaart event, after he'd completed his excavation. If so he must have seen this horn unless subsequent erosion exposed it and it was then too much of a temptation for the burrowing moles.

The plan shows the void this deposit filled as opposed to the extent of the fill. Dry Sieve Information: Not dry sieved but may have hand picked finds 

Execution: leaf & brush 

Condition: getting warm and pleasant 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 10 YR 6/2 light brownish grey 

Texture: silt clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 30% bone <3mm to 2cm> 

Post-depositional Features: weathered 

Basal Boundary: very clear and sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2736 below: (Click to view the record) 1869 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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