Unit 4139

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: ashy spreads,clay dumps 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

 

Dimensions: 1.5m n-s, 1.05m w-e, 0.02 to 0.03m thick 

 

Description: same as (4137) above except more confused 

 

Discussion: As (4137) went down it became more mixed and confused. Although there was no real division it was re-numbered (4139). 

 

Recognition: ashy content 

Definition: edges of other things and arbitrarry 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: normal 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid brownish grey 

Texture: silty ashy clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: ashy lenses, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: some cuts 

Basal Boundary: indistinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4205 below: (Click to view the record) 4157, 4133, 41374138 equal to:none 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 2

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 117

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: Yes Count of records:: 13  Unit description: Flot Sample 2339 Entire unit to flotation This was an arbitrary unit from the SW floor of Building 2, space 117. It is an ashy spread contemporaneous with 4137. The flotation sample contained three bones of the small carnivore found in 4137, as well as a small amount of sheep and cattle bones. There were also a large amount of small bone chips less than 1 cm. Colour ranged from light to dark brown and there was very little burning. Last number = F12

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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