Unit 4539

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: oven rake-outs,trample 

 

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

 

Discussion: Ashy oven rake-outs /trample layers in south-east corner of building 18. probably associated with F.I. 477. 

 

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): above: (Click to view the record) 4540 below: (Click to view the record) 4535, 4538 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

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) 18

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 171

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:: 39  Unit description: Flot Sample 2592 - 4 mm completely analyzed Flot Sample 2 - 4 mm completely analyzed Flot Sample 2597 - 4 mm completely analyzed Priority Unit A floor unit which has a fairly normal floor deposit (small fragments, light brown to black, some of the smallest pieces burnt). Some of the fragments seem to belong to recently broken larger fragments and the prehistoric fragment size may have been a bit larger than for other floors. In addition there is the tip of a bone needle, a few small mammal bones (possibly a young badger ulna), a few fish bones, a few microfauna bones and fragments of bird bone. One of the small mammal bones is the proximal end of a metacarpal which may be from the same animal as the metacarpal in 4540. Sample 2 has two bead preforms, using two different techniques. Reminiscent of 4530, which also has beadmaking activity in the rake-out. Last number = 38

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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