Unit 6151

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: packing 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 1x1m 

 

Discussion: Removal of packing under floor 6149 on platform F.154/162. Chunks of brick frgs. and charcoal in packing. Also frgs. of red painted plaster. Samples taken from ashy lenses underlying packing and directly overlying white floor. Ashy lens is applied directly onto floor, then covered in packing. Lot of plant remains in ashy lens on floor.
15.08. PD/ Sample No. 6 is 2-3 more layers of flooring: top to bottom: white, red, thin grey (all thin) to the yellowish/beige surface and a circular cut vicible on it (grave?). 

 

Recognition: under floor 

Definition: 1x1m grid 

Execution: trowel, pick 

Condition: OK 

Consistency: slight. sticky, slight. plastic 

Colour: 10YR 7/3 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal 0.2 - 1 cm <10% 

Post-depositional Features: animal runs 

Basal Boundary: v. sharp, v. distinct, onto floor 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 6149 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

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 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 86

Features:: (Click to view the record) 154 (burial) 162 (platform)

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:: 2  Unit description: No material from the dry sieve. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted. This is a moderate size sample with a range of fragment sizes, some quite sizable. Nearly half is burnt, some is digested. Surface condition is somewhat variable, generally good. More sheep-size than large mammal. Diagnostics are all sheep/goat, some of them digested. No DZs, nothing worth measuring. Some fragments of burnt cattle horn core. A bit of fish, a fragment of a bone needle and another possible tool. Looks like a little bit of midden. Last number = 2

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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