Unit 4548
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: rake-out,trample
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 2.24m w-e, 1.5m n-s, 0.02 to 0.08m thick
Discussion: Mixed discontinuous thin spreads of trample/floor/ashy rake-out. Possibly slightly less 'dirty' / ashy than norm.
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: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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:: 32
Unit description: Flot sample 2636 Flot sample 2626 Priority unit Floor/trample. Entire unit went to flotation and the 4mm fraction was fully sorted and recorded. Colour ranged from light brown to black, but was generally light and untrampled looking. There were a few bones from a small mammal, possibly the hedgehog and a few sheep-goat. Most of the bones were unidentifiable to element or species, but were from small or medium sized animals. There were also a few small pieces of bird bone. Last number = 32Figurine 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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