Unit 1323
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: outside building
Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 0.9 x 0.8m
Discussion: Lower fill in Space 73 to East of Building 1 less red, more mixed brownish deposit. Comes down on to brickier deposit-am stopping at this point as we do not want the walls to stand too high before excavating the upper phase of the interior. The main East wall of Building 1 is now standing 46 cm high at highest point.
Execution: Pick and trowel
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10YR 3/2 Very dark greyish brown
Texture: Sit loam
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Charred remains 0.1 - 2 cm, 2%; brick lumps 0.2 - 10 cm, 2%
Post-depositional Features: Roots
Basal Boundary: Undulating, distinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 74
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
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: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window) | |
| Buildings: none | |
Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| |
| 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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 90
Unit description: Small unit with scraps of mostly sheep-size bones, + 1 possibly wild goat horn core, quite well-preserved and originally complete. Some burning, most of it fairly light. Sample 1 <4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Largish sample with many big pieces, featuring a complete (in the ground) sheep scapula and a couple of large pieces of large mammal rib. Roughly equal amounts of sheep-size and large mammal. Virtually all is burnt, nearly all at low temperatures; likely postdepositonal. This is supported by burnt fish bone and a burnt snake skeleton, which, while it may be intrusive, must have intruded in the Neolithic. All body parts represented, but short on long bones, feet only by one metapodial fragment. Fragments of a shattered burnt pig tooth. Weathering quite variable; little or no digestion. Slight coherence, as a few things could come from the same sheep. Looks like mostly daily post-consumption discard, at varying rates so some exposed longer than others, and perhaps with many removed for bone grease processing whose debris is deposited elsewhere. Seems to be going directly from house to outside without being worked over by dogs. Scapula and horn core might be part of some special deposit, perhaps from inside the house when it burned, but it seems unlikely that the burnt scapula would have survived intact under these circumstances. So more likely already outside; burning may be house fire. Last number = 90Figurine 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
main sponsors
secondary sponsors
