Unit 1074
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: ashy midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 2.0m NS 1.40 EW
Discussion: Ashy (midden) in NE part of 107 eastern trench. To south it divides into a lower and upper layer - lower one contains a cluster but it is very difficult to distinguish the two lenses and this is not done.
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: Strong and dry
Colour: 10yr 4/3 -3/3
Texture: sandy clay loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Artefactual: burnt (charcoal, stone) aggregates, brick, mortar or floor plaster aggregates, bone, shell. Plant remains: silicated plants, huckberries. Geological: natural stones, clay.
Post-depositional Features: No
Basal Boundary: Sharp smooth anthropogenic boundary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 15
Total Deposit Volume: 55
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 18
Unit description: Unit 1074. July 17 2014. Dry sieve only. Small unit. Majority of the bones are cattle size and sheep size fragments and they are in similar quantities. Taxa represented are cattle, sheep and equids (although there is rib fragment and an ulna or a fibula fragment of a hare-size animal, both young. Unable to speciate, sub-bagged and labeled as 002 size). In cattle size, all body parts are present. Distribution is fairly even. Diagnostics include an acetabulum fragment, Tooth in mandible, loose teeth, phalanges, a left radial carpal (it does not articulate with the articulated wrist -see below). MNI=2. Cattle size fragments range between 3-21cm, mostly 4-8 cm. In sheep/goat all body parts are represented, although head and feet seem slightly underrepresented. Fragment size is 1-13 cm, mostly 3-4cm. Diagnostics include left maxilla with all the teeth (not recorded according to 2014 protocol), a deciduous loose tooth, two left and one right scapulae (glenoid), MNI=2. Equid diagnostics include two left fourth metacarpals, phalanges. MNI=2, lower molars. ARTICULATION: Cattle MC III+IV and Carpals 2+3 and 4 (see below). (Also and unfused cattle phalanx w/ epipysis is bagged w/ IDs for Alex Bayliss). Cut marks: A distal humerus with cut marks (dismemberment). Scapula shaft, chop mark. Mandible fragment, possible chop mark. This unit contains mostly old break (70 %). Fragile pieces in this unit, such as distal femur and proximal humerus, are missing probably due to attrition.This unit contains butchery discard as well as consumption discard. The larger fragments, some with cut marks, may suggest a small feast, rapidly deposited. Exca db notes that this unit contained a cluster that was impossible to separate. There is an articulated joint (left cattle MC III+IV, Carpal 4 and Carpal 2+3) sub-bagged and pulled for Alex’s C dating. This joint may belong to the cluster along with some of the larger fragments of articular ends. (There is a left cattle radial carpal as well, but it does not articulate with the joint). This cluster might have been a feasting deposit. Comparison: In contrast to other midden units, this unit is not overwhelmingly sheep/goat. It is similar to another unit (1653) I recorded from this space (115) in two ways: 1. Not overwhelmingly sheep/goat, there is a good proportion of cattle fragments, 2. fragment size is not too small, mostly includes post consumption debris. However, these units are different in two ways: 1. 1653 seems to be more mixed, with variable surface condition and gnawed bits, whereas the condition seems uniform in 1074 with no gnawing or digestion. 2. 1074 contains more primary butchery remains (especially feet) compared to 1653. Overall, this unit seems to contain a bone cluster (of possibly feasting remains) and other post consumption debris. The unit may come from multiple events, but it is different than a midden unit in that it lacks butchery discard and gnawed/digested bits. Athough it may come from multiple events, the unit is coherent in that it contains mostly consumption debris. Recorded material is sub-bagged and kept with the unrecoded bones according to the 2014 protocol. Last number:Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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