Unit 4464

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 0.92m (E-W) by 0.68m (N-S) and up to 0.10m thick 

 

Discussion: Layer of infill in F.492 betwen wooden cover 4460 and skeleton 4593. Contained a large concentration of phytolith (s.5 and s.7), possibly some type of vegetable basket covering over body and under wooden cover. 

 

Recognition: Mottled fill under wood 4460 

Definition: Broadly restricted within grave cut 4612 

Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel and fine tools from below 4460 to edge of cut 

Condition: Dry and compact 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Mottled brown and grey 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: <5% small animal bone, <2% charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: Some root and insect disturbance, possibly some faunal disturbance in antiquity 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4617 below: (Click to view the record) 4460 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 16

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

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) 6

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 163

Features:: (Click to view the record) 492 (Burial)

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:: 28  Unit description: The fauna from unit 4464, a layer between a human skeleton and wooden cover, was recovered by flotation. Therefore 4mm, flotation sample #2, 100% sorted was fully recorded. Almost all the sample is undiagnostic, small pieces of bone a few of which had been burnt to low temperatures and some show evidence of being digested. Identifiable bones were limited to a pathological 2nd sheep phalanx and distal sesamoid that were possibly articulated. Also there was a fragment of cattle tooth. Last number= 28

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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