Unit 1279

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: room fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 1 x 70 m NE corner 

 

Discussion: Under this fill the floor has appeared same as south half of Space 110.
1279.X1. Obsidian object 

 

Execution: Hand pick and trowel 

Condition: Shade 

Consistency: Moderately weak 

Colour: 10 YR 6/2 

Texture: Silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Natural aggregates of soil and patches of plaster 

Post-depositional Features: Roots, insect holes 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, knife edge, prominent, wavy to smooth, inclined 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1358, 1295, 1359, 1387, 1388, 2145, 2138 below: (Click to view the record) 1272, 1241 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1282 

 

Dry sieve volume: 120 

Total Deposit Volume: 162 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 110

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:: 34  Unit description: Tiny unit with 3 pieces of sheep-size scrap. 1 calcined, others unburnt. Rather weathered. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. Smallish sample of mostly sheep-size taxa, a little large mammal, and a fragment of carnivore (dog?) tooth. Also rather weathered. A little burning, very little digestion. No coherence, looks kicked around. Looks like fill. Last number = 34

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 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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