Unit 11370
Category: Layer dug in 2005
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: finely bedded
Discussion: ETH; Obsidian point found, pt still intact. Lots of bone found in charcoal. Charcoal layer appears to go deeper as midden slopes.
SMc; Midden deposit to east of wall (11368), consists of 6 -7 different layers, some burned some silty, some plaster debris in SE corner. Mixed in places, basal interface quite diffuse in places. Overlies dump of building rubble in NW corner. Deposits slope to SE where they are deeper. Wall (11368) exposed on eastern side now. (11369) is deposit on west side of wall, pos part roomfill or if part midden material then prob contemporary with (11370). (11370) represents continued dumping within this space of a variety of rubbish types.
Recognition: midden deposit below (11367). Charcoal rich deposit taken as division between this deposit below.
Definition: to east of wall 11368.
Execution: trowel, hand mattock
Condition: dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: variable
Texture: silt
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: charcoal, plaster, brick frags, stone, bone, pot, obsidian
Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance
Basal Boundary: gradual, wavy, slopes to SE
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 885
Total Deposit Volume: 911
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 15
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 12
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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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 2005 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 49 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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