Unit 3673
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: occupation/oven debris
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 1.24 x 0.86 x 0.03
Discussion: (3673) represents a spread of finely layered ashy material, phytoliths and organic material with occasional lenses of plaster (possible remnant of floors) overlying a plastered floor (3680) and the packing beneath it in the most SW quadrant of space 117. It lay within and lapped up to a plastered lip to the E and was thickest to the S and E of the deposit. Although much of the material within the deposit was burnt, the burning does not seem to have happened in situ. It may be the waste from the ovens situated to the W of the area it covered. The lenses of organic residue were also concentrated to the W of the deposit + did not appear to extend through the baulk to (3672).
Recognition: A crusty orangeish grey ashy layer lying beneath mixed plaster and overlying a floor.
Definition: The material was clearly different from those above and beneath and defined by cracking.
Execution: Trowel/leaf.
Condition: Dry.
Consistency: same as 3672 except there is a crusty layer of salts on surface of this deposit at interface with 3653
Colour:
Texture: same as 3672, except orange residue concentration
Bedding: same as 3672
Inclusions: same as 3672
Post-depositional Features: flaky salt encrustation on surface, truncated to S by 2707
Basal Boundary: a sharp/clear/anthropogenic basal boundary, defined by a layer of salt encrustation, the surface between 3673 and the layer beneath was smooth and level
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 31
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
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:: 8
Unit description: This material is from flotation only, and is a small unit of material from the layer above the plastered floor in space 117 of B. 2. There are fish remains and small shells in the >2mm. The >4mm contains three vertebral fragments from a sheep-sized animal (but they are not from the same animal), and one fragment probably from a small bird. The rest is unidentifiable. Less than 10% of the unit is digested, and about 15% burnt (both these are by bulk, not # of elements). Is this material that would have lain on the floor? One of the vertebrae is about 4 cm long; thus visible, and an annoyance if left on the floor due to its pointy spines. Also, the material does not seem as battered/weathered as the bone from Richard's floor levels, which he was sure was occupation debris. This layer contains about 20 times as much bone material as the plaster floor it overlies. Last Number = 8Figurine 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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