Unit 5087

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Floor surface/ make-up layers 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

 

Dimensions: 1.84m e-w x 1.41m n-s x 0.12 deep 

 

Discussion: 5087 was a thick layer of multiple floor surfaces, packing and occupation debris in the south-east corner of building 23/ space 178. It represents a substantial phase of occupation and unlike the later floors was not associated with any 'dirty areas' hearths or ovens. However, they do probably relate to the use of ovens in the south west corner of the building (probably F 539). This suggests that in this phase of the use of the building all of the ovens were in the south west of the building and the clean/ dirty aea divide (that is evident in later phases of use) was further to the west. The use of the area that these floors cover may therefore have been different to the use of the same area in later phases of the building. 

 

Consistency: Friable-dru, cracked and crumbly 

Colour: Mixed-various shades of grey, brown and brownish white 

Texture: Mixed-clayey silt, ash, organic residue, charcoal, lenses of typical floor, occupation debris 

Bedding: Compound layered 

Inclusions: Mixed-high charcoal content, also ash, clay, plaster, obsidian, small pieces of bone, shell, organic residue, coprolite (?), stones, tiny pebbles, red pigment (ochre) 

Post-depositional Features: Salt encrustation, animal burrowing and cracking 

Basal Boundary: Sharp, smooth and distinct-sloping from west to east, and from south to north. 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5094, 5096 below: (Click to view the record) 5083, 5084 equal to:none 

 

Dry sieve volume: 80 

Total Deposit Volume: 102 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 23

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 178

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:: 1  Unit description: H3 is a tiny bone bead.

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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