Unit 4656

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: fill,post-retrieval pit infill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0.33m n-s x 0.45m e-w x 0.25m deep 

 

Description: as [4605] 

 

Discussion: Infill of PRP, arb. number for cut - [5062]
Possibility that samples of PRP fill and original post packing are mixed, only seen in section. 

 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: dark brown 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal 2%, plaster blocks 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5062 below: (Click to view the record) 4325, 4172, 4443, 5174, 4416 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 37 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 17

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 170

Features:: (Click to view the record) 8454 (pit)

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:: 36  Unit description: Dry sieve has just 10 fragments: a foetal cattle phalanx, a sheep size mandible fragment and long bone frags, a cattle-sized skull frag, plus some indeterminates. Flotation sample 2 (>4mm was 100% sorted and recorded) is small, with a few cattle sized frags, but mostly sheep-sized (long bone, rib, vert). Diagnostics are fox and dog (?) femur frags, a sheep/goat patella, carpal and phalanx. Condition: fragments are on the small size (many at 1 cm) but range up to ca. 6 cm. Surfaces are generally in good condition and the bone doesn't seem to have been exposed/rolled much although some of the smaller pieces are a little battered. Quite a few pieces are digested, and about 5% are burnt at low temperatures. Generally the assemblage has low integrity, seems to have mixed derivations, but isn't trampled (suggesting a fill rather than floor deposit). The bone would seem to represent post-consumption debris, after intensive processing. Last record = F36

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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