Unit 12568
Category: Layer dug in 2006
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: fill of scoop
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: scoop; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Dimensions: 0.44x0.36x0.07
Discussion: Layer is probably associated with infilling/making up the ground level to be plastered. Four stones and an obsidian piece were found directly on top of this layer. The finds may be the remenents or the entiriety of a cache. The stones are very flat and theoritically could be used as bead blanks.If so this may add towards explanation for the pit's construction - a storage cache. If so, presumably the stones were quite rare and carried value to go to the trouble of digging a pit and then plastering over. Given the location of all the finds directly on top of the to be excavated layer they are not thought to be fortutious.
Recognition: colour change under plaster
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: reddish brown with grey
Texture: loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: charcoal flecks and shell
Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance
Basal Boundary: clear
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 3
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds 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 2006 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No 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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