Unit 4882
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: dump,midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 3.1m+ w-e, 2.8m+ n-s, 0.04 to 0.11m thick
Discussion: General midden / dump layer in eastern part of space 181.
Recognition: beneath distinct deposit
Definition: limits of excavation / deep sounding
Execution: trowel / mattock
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
Basal Boundary: faint, smooth, anthropogenic, flattish
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 675
Total Deposit Volume: 742
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
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:: 312
Unit description: F 85 subsampled for ZooMS (DCO 2014) Layer above gully fill (4884 is the fill proper); medium-sized unit. Looks somewhat like midden in terms of weathering, but fragment size is smaller than normal midden, and there are fewer long bones than classic Space 181 midden, and more waste body parts like feet and skull. There are fewer Bos fragments than classic midden; most fragments are sheep or goat, or sheep-sized. Trampling, weathering, and especially gnawing are high. There is a little more burning than normal midden, and especially in the high-temperature category (about 10% is calcined), which is very rare for classic midden. But the major proportion of the bones are not burned at all and therefore would not have been involved in lime-burning (have not been in proximity to heating or hot ash/calcined bones). This is probably a later fill of the gully, made up of mostly midden material, but taking some of the lime-burning debris with it. There is less of the lime-burning material in this fill than in the lower fill (4884). {See also 4884 F.U.D. for a comparison between that unit and this.} There is one equid foot, and a fair amount of large animal long bone shafts and some ribs, but as usual most bone comes from sheep-sized animals (about 70%?) Flotation sample #2, 100% sorted, was recorded for diagnostics only at a later date. The bone from this sample was fairly heavily fragmented, although a number of carpals are complete. Weathering is low as is gnawing and digestion. About 5% of the bone has been heated to low temperatures and the occasional fragment has become calcined. This shows some differences in the deposit, the bone in sample 2 was less burnt and weathered. However, it is also made up of a high proportion of material from sheep sized animals (c. 80%). Body parts represented by the diagnostic bones are dominated by carpals, the occasional tooth and long bone. In addition to the few bones from 07 sized animals, there is a reasonable amount of microfauna. Overall, the sample appears to contain the fragmented waste from fairly intensively processed animals as well as material from other sources (the calcined bone could be from lime burning episodes and the microfauna may have entered the deposit from yet another source). Last Number = 311Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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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