Unit 4871
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: dump,midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 6.5m+ w-e, 3.0m+ n-s, average 0.15 to 0.20m thick
Discussion: General midden/dump layer covering all of space 181.
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):
Dry sieve volume: 1260
Total Deposit Volume: 1471
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 13
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:: 811
Unit description: A large unit from the midden in Space 181. On the whole, quite fragmented, although there are a few large pieces present. Mostly sheep-size animals, but larger mammals represented, as well as microfauna and fish. Plenty of microfauna out of both flot samples, but only one has large amounts of fish. Weathering consistently medium, moderate amounts of low and quite high-temperature burning. Some digestion. Not a lot of identifiable long bones, very few vertebrae, and fewer foot and head fragments than had been noticed in the upper layers of the same midden. A moderate amount of rib. Many very broken-up long bone shaft splinters, mostly from 003 animals, but also a higher proportion of 007 long bone splinters than above. Several fragments from multiple very young animals. Some flotation bone was pulled from another material and arrived with no flotation or sample number and were recorded for diagnostics only. Within this there was a mandible of a caprine with a series of cut marks probably from skinning. More material arrived November 2000: O/C carpal and tarsal and some scrap. Does not change understanding of unit. [sm] Last number = 875Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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