Unit 1057

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Dimensions: 4 m N/S, 1.50 m E/N 

 

Discussion: Part of midden-contains domestic refuse. 

 

Execution: Trowel 

Consistency: Moderately firm becoming moderately weak towards the south near wall 

Colour: 2.5 4.2 Dark greyish brown 

Texture: sandy clay loam 

Bedding: Massive, sandy clay loam 

Inclusions: All less than 2 % pot, clay balls, obsdian, burnt clay, charcoal, shell, plaster, stones(varied), piece of figurine, bone over 5 %. 

Post-depositional Features: Trunculated to East by Mellaart 

Basal Boundary: Dumped clearly visible in parts paint where very compact wavy in form. 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1059 below: (Click to view the record) 1054 

 

Dry sieve volume: 310 

Total Deposit Volume: 394 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 115

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

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 186  Unit description: A moderate amount of bone was recovered from unit 1057, a layer within a dump. The material has low integrity, being a mixture of animals with caprine, equid and pig all forming significant portions of the identifiable material, cattle and some carnivore bones were also present in lower numbers. The bone is moderately fragmented, very little had been burnt and digested bone is present in low proportions. The bone from the 4mm flotation samples #1 and 2 was recorded for diagnostics only. An additional bag of flotation material without a sample or flot number was also recorded. All the samples were similar to the material from the dry sieve suggesting that the deposit was relatively homogeneous. A few fish bones were found in the sample with no number. Three pieces of worked bone were recovered, a polished piece of flat bone, probably mandible, a point and from the flotation sample, half a pierced piece of oval shaped bone, possibly a bead. Last number = 186

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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