Unit 4846

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: dump,midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Dimensions: 4.6m+ w-e, 2.2m+ n-s, 0.02 to 0.06m thick 

 

Discussion: General dump / midden layer lying between distinctive burning events (4845) and (4848). Very similar to (4844). 

 

Recognition: unclear 

Definition: arbitrary / deep sounding 

Execution: mattock + trowel 

Condition: moist 

Consistency: moderate 

Colour: mixed, mainly light to mid greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: moderate small to large bone, moderate charcoal flecks, occasional obsidian / clay ball / burnt material frags. Contains ashy bands. 

Post-depositional Features: deep sounding, considerable biturbation from roots / insects 

Basal Boundary: faint, smooth, anthropogenic, sloping down to west and south 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4847 below: (Click to view the record) 4845 equal to: (Click to view the record) 4869 

 

Dry sieve volume: 420 

Total Deposit Volume: 543 

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: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 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:: 225  Unit description: Medium-sized unit, highly fragmented on the whole. Moderately weathered, w/ very small amount of burning. Still relatively small amount of the axial skeleton, id-able bones largely teeth and feet, but a fair number of fragmented long bone. Taxa include 003 and 007-size, particularly sheep/goat, equid and Bos. There is also one human mandible fragment. Worked bone consists of a bone 'needle' made from a rib. Looks like v little digestion or gnawed. Also recorded: Sample 2 - Flot No 3008 - >4mm - 100%. Also fragmentary with very few idables. Fish and microfauna represented in very small numbers (including one rather large amphibian long bone). Also recorded: sample 3, >4mm, flot 3010. A large flot sample with non-identifiables merely weighed and counted. identifiables are almost exclusively from sheep-sized animals (although the unidentifiables include proportionally more fragments from larger-sized animals - about 15%), and include teeth, hindlimb elements, and pelvis. There are three hindlimb fragments (no reason why they should not be from the same individual) from a very juvenile sheep/goat. Pieces are generally fairly well weathered, although this is mixed. Digestion and gnawing were not observed in the identifiable bones, but may of course be present in the unidentifiables. (Difficult to discuss body part representations without closer study of the unidentifiables.) -sm Sample #4. 1005 sorted, had diagnostics only recorded at a later date. This sample consisted of a highly fragmented sheep-sized animal bones that were nearly all burnt to low temperatures, with the occasional bone having been heated enough to calcine it. Last Number = F.225

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

Ground Stone Records: Yes Count of records:: 1

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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