Unit 5457
Category: Layer dug in 2002
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Recognition: arbitrary
Definition: separate group of discrete lenses of midden fill below 5454
Execution: trowel, hoe, mattock excavated
Condition: hot, windy, sunny
Consistency: compact and greasy
Colour: heterogeneous, although colour varies mud orange brown through to dark grey black. Vog humic (?) and organic looking. A discrete part was rather greenish and cessy looking. A sample was taken for phosphate analysis icase it is cess material.
Texture: silty clay - hard clay,50% clay, 40% silt test sand
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: very frequent animal bone, in particular jaw bone and ribs. The quantities of animal bone some more dense than most retrieved from the upper horizons. The lare fragments of clayball including one complete item suggests that this part of the midden was more cooking/ even feasting related actvities (more than previous horizons, although all of these items have been identifie here.
Post-depositional Features:
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 90
Total Deposit Volume: 105
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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 Ceramics Data for 2002 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 9 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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