Unit 12238

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: layer,space infill 

 

Data Category Information: Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Dimensions: 1.10 x 1.00 

 

Discussion: This is a layer at the level of cluster of human and animal bones recorded as unit 12240. This appear to be an infill of earlier phase of space 248 demarkated by walls from the west (unit 11792) and the east (unit 12241). Size of this space is impossible to define due to truncation of its supposed southern part by big cut of Byzantine burial/ 

 

Recognition: color, consistency, stratigraphic relations 

Definition: infill of space below 248 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: light grey 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, obsidian, shell 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by later pits 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12262 below: (Click to view the record) 11786, 11785 

 

Dry sieve volume: 48 

Total Deposit Volume: 73 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 95

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 416

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 2005 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 34

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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