Unit 1347
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: between buildings
Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: Baulk was removed from the east side of Space 73. The base of baulk is lined with semi-angular stones. During the removal bone, obsidian and stone samples were recovered.
Condition: Clear and dry
Consistency: Moderately firm
Colour: 10YR 4/3 brown
Texture: Silty loam
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: Charcoal 2% >5mm
Post-depositional Features: Roots 5%
Basal Boundary: Arbitrary layer
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 40
Total Deposit Volume: 92
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 74
Unit description: Medium-size unit with variety of taxa including biggish pieces of large mammals. Wide range of elements represented. Features X1, a complete horn core + frontal of a smallish female ?aurochs. The horn is quite evenly carbonized; otherwise there is only a moderate amount of burning in the unit, most of it less intense. The surface of the horn core is quite fresh and unweathered, suggesting it was not mounted outside the house, but was buried quite quickly. There is also most of a wing of a large bird, with abundant cut marks. This seems less like simple 'garbage' than some of the outside deposits. Several bones appear chopped open through joint as though with a cleaver. 100% of 4mm flotation processed. Perhaps more burning than in the rest of the unit, including some of skull from horn core X1. Burning was perhaps localized in unit? Fragment of bone ring from 2mm flotation, sample 1. Also tip fragment of bone point, quite tiny, probably broken in use and possibly indicating activity area. Last number = 73Figurine 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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