Unit 3549
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 1.44 x 0.72m
Discussion: Unit begun 20/7/99. This is the first unit in sp.87. Small room in SW corner of BACH w/ 4 lovely plastered walls. W wall goes under tent structure so a section has been set up about midway through unit N-S in other words I am right now digging in a block that is 1m from the E wall. Another arbitrary section has been drawn E-W down the middle of the room ??? in the NE corner of the building. Later we will excavate the SE corner as well but now I am investigating a chunk in the centre of the room of possible roof that is quite similar to the dirty roof layers og bldg.3 as seen in plan. 3-5cm of soil was left up against the plastered walls.
21/7/99 possible roof chunk has now been designated probable roof, unit 3556. V. near E wall was a chunk of plaster layers (c. 10x20cm) that appears to have fallen in directly from wall. This corresponds with what is seen in plan (scrapings of plaster, . . . ) that a N-ern portion of the E wall has less layers (ie. lost some layers) that the S-ern half of E wall. Underneath the chunk of plaster layers is a small bit (6x6x1.5cm) of burnt arch. debris (burnt plaster?).
31/7/99 Unit spread to W 40cm. many larger bones and some v. burnt bone (X7) and stone (X4).
Recognition: Beige, v. crumbly w/ lots of salts and disturbance
Definition: N,E: plastered wall of room; Swcorners it abuts roof stripes; NW boundary defined by grig
Execution: trowel, Mira tool
Condition: v. dark, crumbly (of course, it's close to surface)
Consistency: loose, slightly sticky moderately plastic
Colour: 7.5YR 7/2 pinkish grey
Texture: sandy clay loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: plaster bits 1-2cm lumps 3-5cm, ???? <2% around 2%, obsidian <2% < 1cm all inclusions burnt and unburnt
Post-depositional Features: salts, roots, lots of animal burrows
Basal Boundary: clear, distinct, wavy, inclined down at a v. small angle towards N
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 385
Total Deposit Volume: 420
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 7
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:: 120
Unit description: A small unit containing a few identifiables (sheep and goat) and a human tooth. Some indeterminate fragments of large mammals are present. Very little of the bone has been burnt or digested. No flotation sample could be located. X1 is a bone point. LM 2003: More material found. A small unit with very few diagnostics. There are a few large chunks of 07 size: a long bone shaft, a vertebral centrum (burnt) and an ilium fragment, plus an 07 tooth fragment. Otherwise, it is mostly 03 size (long bone shafts, ribs, two vertebrae, tooth fragments and indeterminates, all quite fragmented (ca. 3 cm). The only diagnostics are an O/C distal radius, proximal metatarsal and navicular-cuboid. Surface condition is fair - weathering stage 3 - and one or two pieces are carbonized black. One vertebra piece is digested. Otherwise, little carnivore activity. One piece of amphibian removed. This unit doesn't look like floor/surface because of the large chunks and it's not rolled/reworked enough. It isn't like midden. Rather, it seems to be quite mixed, with little integrity, with perhaps some bone resulting from processing dumping and other from consumption but it's really difficult to say with this small amount. The unit sheet is uninformative about interpretation of context. 4mm sample (no 1) done in entirety. Pattern replicates the dry sieve material but without diagnostics, except for an o/c 4th carpal, digested. 1 fragment of fish removed and 1 fragment of bird bone. Last number = 67Figurine 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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