Unit 2918

Category: Layer    dug in 1998

 

Area: Trench I 

 

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Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: Fill of circular Byzantine(?) pit. Containing abundant refuse material, including pot, bone, obsidian etc. Pottery all appers to be Chalcolithic but some Byzantine tile. About human bone present, suggests truncation of a burial, only up 10cm excavated. 

 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: 2,5y 3/2 very dark greyish brown 

Texture: silt loam 

Bedding: massive (probably) 

Inclusions: 5% Artefactional - Pot, bone, obsidian, plaster, human bone 

Post-depositional Features: roots, burrows 

Basal Boundary: not bottomed 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2919 below: (Click to view the record) 2915 

 

Dry sieve volume: 420 

Total Deposit Volume: 454 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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: none

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: No

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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