Unit 4530
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: oven rake-outs,trample
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 1.4m w-e, 1.24m n-s, 0.02 to 0.04m thick
Discussion: Dirty area of ashy oven rake-outs / trample in south-east corner of space 171. Large objects concentrated on western side, seem to be relatively 'random' refuse, - ?in zone around oven F.473 which they are probably associated with. Final occupation phase with large objects which were normally removed from rake-out / trample still present.
Recognition: dirty/ashy
Definition: upstanding, walls, cut
Execution: trowel
Condition: moist
Consistency: soft
Colour: dark grey/mid brown
Texture: ashy silty clay
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: frequent charcoal, moderate bone, pot, clay ball, shell, stone
Post-depositional Features: truncated in 1960's
Basal Boundary: anthropogenic, diffuse, faint, smooth, flat
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 22
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X
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:: 53
Unit description: Flot Sample 2579 - S4 2576 - S2 Priority Unit A very dense floor/rakeout containing large pieces of bone, stone, clay balls and obsidian - perhaps an in situ deposit associated with the oven. No dry sieved material - the entire bone assemblage was from heavy residue or x -finded. Colour is light to medium brown - lighter than 'normal' ashy rakeout. Tiny amount of burning all of very small pieces. The only identifiable taxa are sheep/goat. There are also two partial bone beads a bead preform and a small carnivore tooth. Probably a bead workshop, or at least the remains of beadmaking. There are three unfinished bone beads, using two different manufacturing techniques. Are there beads of other materials from this unit? 4mm flotation sample, 100% sorted, recorded for diagnostics only at a later date appears to be similar in makeup, consisting of small fragments of sheep-sized bone, a few with temperature burning and no identifiables. There were,however, a couple of pieces of microfauna and two bone point tips, one of which was very fine. Last Number = F.46Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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