Unit 4181
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 0.60m by 0.50m by 0.15m
Discussion: Fill of Fire Installation cut 4181. Contains mixed lense of deposits of ash and charcoal. Areas of reddened earth also contain rare charcoal.
Located near cut 4178 no relationship recorded between the two.
Recognition: beneath recent backfill
Definition: charcoall brown/black deposit
Execution: trowel half section
Condition: good moist
Consistency: loose-friable
Colour: varied - orange-brown and sandy lenses
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: ash lenses charcoal lenses occassional salts
Post-depositional Features:
Basal Boundary: smooth, clear
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII
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: Flot sample 2395 A fire installation from Building 6. A few sheep size long bone fragments and 20 g of bone chips. Much more burnt than 4177. The bots see a lot of consumption related material rather than typical midden stuff. Perhaps this is in situ food preparation rather than redeposition event? Last Number = F8Figurine 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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