Unit 3278
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: infilling
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Discussion: Infilling at N end of space 155 (CC).
Collapsed building debris (AB).
Recognition: By the deposition of the fill and irregularity.
Definition: Till the floor.
Execution: Pick axe, trowel, brush, leaf.
Condition: Moist.
Consistency: moderatly compact, friable
Colour: 10 YR 4/2 dark grayish brown - 10 YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown
Texture: silty clayey soil
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: plaster frags (<10 cm <10%) brick agg. (<5cm <10%) charcoal (<1 cm <2%)
Post-depositional Features: salts and phytoliths
Basal Boundary: sharp and anthropogenic
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 105
Total Deposit Volume: 168
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 39
Unit description: Most of this material is from flotation only, except for two pieces of long bone from the dry sort. It is a very small unit from above the floor in sp 155 (Adnan's). This is 'upper fill above floor', (for comparison with 3801 which is lower) and is represented by >4mm flot sample number 2. It is a smallish unit, and bone is in fair condition, with a few at heavier weathering stages, but most at stages 2-3; some burnt at low temperatures. There are a couple of digested bones. Mainly is sheep size, with long bones, verts, and undiagnostics. No diagnostics. There are also 5 very fresh looking small mammal bones, which could come from 1 individual, and might be from burrow?? The main contrast with 3801 is that this is less weathered overall. D1 is a worked rib (spatula? needle?) For dry sieve material: Mostly sheep-size, but several chunks of large mammal. About 20% of the material is burnt (by bulk, not # of elements) and one small piece is probably digested. Weathering is variable, and some of the pieces appear battered and worn. Rather fragmented, but several pieces in the 1-4 cm range. No coherence, mixed origins. Looks like fill. Last number = 38Figurine 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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