Unit 3856

Category: layer    dug in 1998

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: infilling 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 0.47-0.23m x 0.46-0.22 m N-S x 0.40 m deep 

 

Discussion: First layer.
Infilling in pit, SW corner of platform F239. This cut may be part of the same retrieval cut (3806). There is more plaster (larger fragments also) and hard clay lumps (larger fragments) in the lower part of the fill, but is fairly certain to be one layer. This pit has not yet got a feature number! Plaster layers are very visible at the top of the pit.

Quite similar to general infilling deposits (CC). 

 

Recognition: Change in colour from (3842). 

Definition: By pit edges (clearly seen layers of floor in pit edges). 

Execution: Trowel, mattock. 

Condition: Slightly moist. 

Consistency: hard, compact but friable when crushed 

Colour: 7.5 YR 3/4 dark brown also dark/black patches 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered (compound) 

Inclusions: charcoal 2 mm 2%; brick frag. 2 mm - 10 cm 10% top of layer/2% bottom of layer; hard clay lumps 5-20 cm 5% top of layer/50 cm 30% bottom of layer; plaster frags. 5-10 cm pieces 20% top/30 cm 5% bottom of layer; also bone frags, animal tooth, obsidian and what looks like a piece of crystal 

Post-depositional Features: small animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: sharp/well defined/smooth/prominent 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3857 below: (Click to view the record) 3217 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3842 

 

Dry sieve volume: 10 

Total Deposit Volume: 35 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 5

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 154

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: Yes Count of records::none

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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