Unit 4999

Category: Cut    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: cut for deposit of ash and bone 

Data Category Information: Description: scoop

Dimensions: 0.42m (E-W), 0.53m (N-S), 0.08m deep 

Discussion: 4999 was a roughly pear-shaped cut which lay beneath the ashy deposit 4986 and bone cluster 4993 above the floor surface 5090 in the south east corner of building 23/ space178. Although there was clearly a depression beneath deposits 4993 and 4986, its status as a cut was not always clear. To the west, the hollow was clearly cut through floor layers. To the east, the cut was less distinct and its form followed that of the bones of cluster 4993 which it underlay. A slight cut may have been made to accommodate the bulk of these deposits beneath the later floor layers. However, part of the depression was probably caused by the compaction of the bones into the deposits beneath them. 

Shape: roughly pear-shaped 

Sides: thirty degree slope to the west, more undulating and gently sloped to the east 

Base Break: a distinct, 120 degree base break to the west, more gently sloping and uindulating to the west 

Base: fairly level to the west, irregular to the east. Sloping from south to north. 

Orientation: north - south 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5090 below: (Click to view the record) 4986 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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