Unit 4304
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: ashy spreads
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 1.05m n-s, 0.75m w-e, 0.04 to 0.08m thick
Discussion: Interleaving set of dirty ashy oven rake-out deposits associated with last phase of F.I. 435 or possibly F.I. 455
Recognition: ashu/dirty
Definition: walls/cuts
Execution: trowel
Condition: moist
Consistency: firm
Colour: mixed light grey/light greyish brown
Texture: silty clayey ash
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: frequent charcoal flecks, occasional obsidian frags
Post-depositional Features: truncated by Mellaart / [4303]
Basal Boundary: fairly arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX
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:: 18
Unit description: Priority Unit Flot sample 2476 Heavy residue only (and 1 bone point)- completely sorted and recorded. Colour ranges from light brown to black with almost no burning. As usual, most of the bones are rib and long bone fragments with a large number of small indeterminate pieces. There is part of a rodent skull and an unfused rodent femur - perhaps related to the rodent bones in 4305. Last number = 17Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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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