Unit 8632

Category: Layer    dug in 2003

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden-like packing - fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 1.75 x 1.55 m 

 

Discussion: Another layer of muddle-like deposit under the last floor in sp. 88 (U. 8620) and U. 8628. There is no striking difference between U. 8628 and this one except that when this unit was removed, a larger area with rubble (compact layer with bricky material, chunks of plaster and greasy stuffed reddish clay) connected with the wall was discovered within units 8619/8620. Within this unit a great number of animal bones were found; obsidian flakes, fragments of clay balls and stone objects were found as well.
It might be that the inhabitants used middeny material and rubble of the destroyed walls to fill in the depression at the bottom of the future sp. 88.
This unit did nit expose the bottom end of of the N wall of sp. 88, which was one of the aims of removing this 30 cm thick layer of packing/fill.
Photo N - 20030713_BACH_001/009 - compact bricky clay under unit 8628 

 

Recognition: by colour and location 

Definition: somewhat arbitrary 

Execution: mattock 

Condition: moist 

Consistency: strong 

Colour: dark gray, orange, reddish 

Texture: greasy silty clay, stuffed with plenty of inclussions 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: ash, charcoal, animal bones, obsidian chips, bits of scorched clay 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8638 below: (Click to view the record) 8628 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

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: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 88

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

Ceramics Data for 2003 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 219

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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