Unit 4639
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: arbitrary layer
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 1.0m x 1.0m
Consistency: friable
Colour: dark brown
Texture: clayey silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: charcoal <1%, plaster blocks 20%
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: clear and sharp
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
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:: 23
Unit description: A small unit deriving entirely from flotation sample S1 (>4mm 100% sorted and recorded). Most of the scrap fragments are sheep sized (long bones, vertebrae) but there are some cattle sized (long bone fragments) and hare size (ribs) too. The diagnostics are a sheep/goat calcaneum, a phalanx 1 and 3, and a fox mandible fragment. The preserved and identified fragments seem to be smaller denser skeletal elements. In terms of bone condition, it is all covered with dark staining from phosphates(?), but otherwise shows little coherence/integrity. Lots of fragments are small (1cm) and have lost many edges/surfaces, while long bone fragments are up to 6 cm long (that piece freshly broken) and surface conditions are good (stage 2 or 3). A single fragment is burnt (low temp); some digested; no carnivore gnawing. in sum, the bone seems to have varied derivations. While some seems a bit battered and reworked, and some clearly accessible to dogs, others are larger and have fresher surfaces, and would appear to have been fairly rapidly buried. Easy to see this as fill. Last record = F23Figurine 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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