Unit 3253
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floor/trampled surface
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 2.9 m N-S x 2 m E-W x c.0.02 m
Discussion: This is the last floor in space 156 before the room went out of use. The floor has nice plaster remaining in the corners of the room, protected by supports of the walls. In some places at the W wall and the S wall the plaster on the floor continues up on the walls. Where the plaster is not remaining the floor looks more like a trampled surface, brown, sticky material.
Some finds on the floor has been numbered as the material above them. Concerns the following units: 3228,3241,3242,3243,3298,3810.
Excavated in 50 cm squares. Only 8 squares to the S excavated this season (1998). Continues under blocking into space 157 as uppermost unexcavated layer.
Recognition: Different from infill and deposit above, has a surface easy to follow.
Definition: By the space.
Execution: Excavated with leaf trowel in 50 cm squares.
Condition: Moist.
Consistency: firm
Colour: 10 YR 8/1 white (plaster) 10 YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown
Texture: clay
Bedding: compound layers
Inclusions: charcoal; bits of brown, hard clay
Post-depositional Features: animal holes everywhere, salts
Basal Boundary: on floor
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 73
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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:: 25
Unit description: This unit exists only as >4mm heavy residue samples (S63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70), there is no dry sieve material. Each sample was 100% sorted and recorded, and each only has a tiny amount of material (6-7 pieces), which is mainly small fragments of sheep size scrap in fairly poor condition. The unit is a surface from building 5, space 156. There are no diagnostics, and the scrap consists of the occassional sheepsize longbone frag (S64, S70), a fairly large vertebra fragment (S63), tooth fragment (cattle size from S66), but mostly indeterminate sheep-size pieces. Most of the bone is in poor condition, in small pieces ca. 1 cm, surfaces at weathering stage 3 or 4. About 5% is charred black and a bit less calcined. These samples could well represent food remains, sheep size joints, discarded on the room surface and left there for some time during use of the building, hence being trampled into the floor, broken up and generally battered. Typical floor material. (S63 is different - most fresh looking, not battered). S63 = F1-2 S64 = F3-8 S66 = F9-12 S67 = F13-17 S68 = F18-20 S69 = F21 S70 = F22-25 Last record =F25Figurine 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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