Unit 8882
Category: layer dug in 2004
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: fill of a pit in the midden
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Description: full-on
Discussion: U. 8882 consists of the fill of a pit dug into the midden in sp. 226. The cut of the pit was recognized after removal of U. 8877 (midden deposits) but it cuts also through U. 8869. Most probably it was sealed by U. 8864.
The pit is subcircular in plan, its N-S diam. is ca. 1.65 m and its W-E diam. is 1.40 m. The fill consists of lumps of greasy clay and white plaster, pieces of mudbricks, smal lenses of ash and silty clay deposits. It is difficult to discern it in the midden because its fill consists also of midden deposit and yields the same materials - lots of animal bones, obsidian tools and chips, pottery sherds, charcoal and few stones. Several bone tools and a small clay cone were found in the pit. Two small stone objects were also found there. They were not given X-numbers.
The consistency of the fill was firm but looser in comparison to the surrounding midden.
Most probably it is a pit dug into the midden to extract midden deposits.
Since we were not able to recognise the cut of the pit at the very beginning, certain amount of the pit fill was dry sieved with U. 8869.
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Animal bones - moderate size, midden type density. Good surface condition, moderate fragmentation with some big pieces, some gnowing and digestion. Mostly sheep size but quite a bit of large mammals. Looks like midden. Similar to U. 8869
Lithics - the pit fill is quite distinct from the surrounding midden having lots of big pieces as opposed to the midden, which yielded shatter and small flakes.
Botany - the botanic material is dominated by glume wheat chaff but a mixture of crops is evident (barley, free-threshing wheat, pulses) and sedges (tubers/nutshell of a non-crop origin is also present). In botanical terms it is a secondary of tertiary deposit of a very mixed nature.
Recognition: texture, colour
Definition: quite clear
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry to moist
Consistency: firm
Colour: gray, orange, whiteç yellow, black, greenish
Texture: silty clay, ash, sandy clay, organic materials
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: obsidian chips, pottery sherds, animal bones, charcoal, stones
Post-depositional Features: rodent burrows, salts
Basal Boundary: a firmer brown layer below
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 190
Total Deposit Volume: 222
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
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 2004 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 811 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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