Unit 5138

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Discussion: This Lshaped infill overlays the 5137 which is charcoally midden layer. However 5139 cuts into this layer as well. This is one of the first infill layer after removal of the all the floor layers within southwest corner of the B23. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry seive 

 

Recognition: By eye of its colour differentiation 

Definition: By the edge of the 5139 and the south wall 

Execution: By trowel and pick axe 

Condition: Damp 

Consistency: Moderately firm and friable 

Colour: Dark grey coloured 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal, animal bones, plaster and brick agg 

Post-depositional Features: None 

Basal Boundary: Anthropo/ sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5137 below: (Click to view the record) 5139 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (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:: 7  Unit description: Not fully recorded. Opened only for unusual x-finds Fill from Building 23 - either immediately above or below floor?? X.1 -A set of articulated Bos vertebrae from the axis down to the second thoracic. Total length of column (C2 - T2) 34 cm. Rib heads and proximal shafts still attached to the thoracic vertebra. Probably a joint of meat like the cattle vertebrae in 4325 and lamb vertebrae from beside the oven in Building 23. Interesting that these are being found in the buildings while the outside middens (space 181) contain very small quantities of axial skeleton. Apparently there were very standardized cuts of meat in these domestic contexts. X.2 sacrum and perhaps one lumbar vertebra from Bos. Found north of the axis. NR 2001: X2 actually is an atlas and another axis. This actually looks like primary butchering debris. Usually the vertebrae and rib heads come off first. Why is it here? They can't have butchered a couple of particularly enormous bulls right here. Two bulls apparently at a time is quite an event. Last number = 5

Figurine Records: No

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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