Unit 2844

Category: layer    dug in 1998

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 2.8 m x 1.75 m, 22 cm depth 

 

Discussion: Room like fill of 1/2 of space 112. Structural like debris infill i.e. fragments of plaster and lumps of mudbrick. Occasional flecks of charcoal and bone, but all over few finds. 2 pits (?) (2847, 2853) with significant amount of plaster in both (deposits) dug into room fill, or present pre-room fill? 

 

Recognition: structural debris infill (plaster and brick) defined by S & N walls 

Definition: room fill 

Execution: arbitrary layer by trowel and handpick 

Condition: dry & crumbly 

Consistency: moderlately loose 

Colour: 10 YR 8/1 white 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: flecks of small charcoal, bone rare 

Post-depositional Features: pits (?) / deposits (2775), (2855) 

Basal Boundary: sharp, clear & flat, anthropogenic 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2876 below: (Click to view the record) walls 286, 259, 267 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3195, 3114, 3749 

 

Dry sieve volume: 410 

Total Deposit Volume: 437 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 162

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:: 32  Unit description: A small unit, with not much material, but what there is consists of fairly large bits, including some diagnostics. Some gnawing and digestion. Both sheep and cow-sized bones. While a few pieces are burnt, most are not. Flotation sample #2, >4mm, completely recorded. A small sample, with only 10 scrappy pieces ranging between 1 and 2 cm in length. Last number= 32.

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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