Unit 5274
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: lime burning
Data Category Information: Description: lime burning; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 2.0m+ w-e, 1.4m+ n-s, 0.07 to 0.02m thick
Discussion: Very distinctive deposit of burnt lime like material, clearly burnt in-situ. In eastern part of space 181 getting thicker to east.
Recognition: distinctive light colour
Definition: limits of excavation / limit of light colour
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: friable
Colour: mainly light yellowish white, some light pink patches, occasional light brownish orange
Texture: sandy
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: occasional stone and burnt bone
Post-depositional Features: none apparent
Basal Boundary: distinct, anthropogenic, smooth, sloping down to west/south
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 75
Total Deposit Volume: 111
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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:: 67
Unit description: A medium-small unit which comes from deposit described as 'lime-burning'. As much comes from 4mm flot sample as from dry sieve, but only diagnostics done from flot since there are c.100 frags from dry sieve. Both 07 and 03 sized frags present, in roughly equal proportions. Also fragments of a jaw, which seems to be from pig but it's very fragmented and no teeth. Diagnostics are sheep-goat juvenile scapula head and two bits of sheep/goat metapodial, a cattle toe bone frag, and two fragments of sheep phalanx. Almost whole unit affected by burning, except several pieces of large (07) long bone splinters which are unburnt. The rest is mixed: about half the frags are calcined white (complete bones are calcined and cracked, which according to experimental work indicates prolonged burning, and high temperatures); the rest are charred black, and some burnt brown. This pattern of bone burnt to different degrees suggests that some bone was burnt for longer than others, and achieved much higher temperatures. Was this bone used as fuel? Was it for burning for lime? It doesn't look like midden or fill, neither of which have calcined bone. Also, there are very few diagnostics, although this could be a product of burning which may have shattered articular ends? Last record = 67Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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