Unit 4842

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: c.1.15m w-e, 0.4m+ n-s, 0.37m deep 

 

Discussion: Fill of pit cut [4843], quite homogenous and similar to surrounding material. 

 

Recognition: lack of distinctive burning layers 

Definition: edges of burning layers 

Execution: trowel / mattock 

Condition: moist 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: light/mid grey 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional charcoal flecks / bone frags 

Post-depositional Features: deep sounding 

Basal Boundary: fainr anthropogenic, smoth, flat 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4843 below: (Click to view the record) 4839 

 

Dry sieve volume: 60 

Total Deposit Volume: 102 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 17

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 170, 181

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:: 78  Unit description: A fairly small amount of bone was recovered from unit 4842 and mostly was undiagnostic fragments of sheep-sized long bones. Larger mammal long bones shaft fragments were also present but in much smaller numbers. Rib, vertebral and skull pieces from 03 size animals formed almost the rest of the context and the only diagnostic bone was limited to a few carpals and phalanx fragments. Approximately 30% of the bone had been burnt at low temperatures and was mainly the smaller fragments. Digested bone was present but in low proportions and tended to be confined to the fraction of the bone that had not been burnt. Weathering was minimal but fragmentation was high, apart from one piece of 13 cm, the bone was all under 6 cm in length. Even with the highly processed bone from other units, there tends to be a greater proportion of larger bone fragments. This suggests that the material could represent bone that escaped cleaning efforts and the burning indicates the possibility that the material was swept into a hearth. 4mm flotation sample #2 and #3 were recorded for diagnostics only. Both were similar in makeup to the dry sieve material.

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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