Unit 2897
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 2.8 x 1.75 m
Discussion: Continuing room fill sp. 112. Roughly same material as overlying layer 2890. Moderate amount of complete shells + some bone. Frequent presence of large (10 cm) plaster fragments particularly in vicinity of cuts 2855 and 2875. Abutting new wall in S.
Recognition: Structural debris infill.
Definition: 1/2 sectioned in N, cut by 2855, defined by walls in S, E and W.
Execution: By trowel + handpick.
Consistency: moderately hard, medium crumbly
Colour: 10 YR 3/4 dark greyish brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: frequent large plaster lumps, mudbrick + mortar, occasional shell (small) occasional small charcoal + bone, rare small obsidian
Post-depositional Features: some root activity + frequent salt
Basal Boundary: sharp, clear + level (flat) + anthropogenic
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 250
Total Deposit Volume: 272
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
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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:: 60
Unit description: A small unit, very fragmented, only 2 pieces larger than 3 cm. Mostly sheep/goat sized, but some cow/horse sized. Weathering is variable. Minimal burning. No gnawing or digestion. Almost all scrap-- a few long bone shaft fragments, rib pieces, cranial bits, tooth fragments, one vertebral epiphysis and one horn core bit. No IDed bone. Sample 2 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Ut is a smallish sample, with a number of little rolled crumbles and a few larger pieces, none of it very fresh. Looks like fill. Last number = 60Figurine 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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