Unit 1367
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floor
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)
Dimensions: 1 x 0.60 m
Discussion: Includes packing under floor (1359), which =(1365), but chiefly the rest phase of floors under this packing; these floors have been truncated/cut away along the northern edge in preparation/prior to packing and re-surfacing the upper phase of floors (1359) -see sketch section; all floors except very lowest of this series which remain in situ up until slope upward
Unit 1367 continued 10/9/96 by LJD
1 m2 with mid X and Y 1043.6 / 1194.6 and around grave 31
levels :highest 1012.662; lowest 1012.602
Continued 06/08/97:
10 L of soil dry sieved (added to total)
1 Litre from floors next to platform [13] Over / sealing grave [30] (also added to total)
Execution: Trowel and hand pick
Consistency: Moderately weak
Colour: 10YR 6/3 Pale brown
Texture: Silty clay
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: Plant remains, wall or floor plaster aggregates (very small)
Post-depositional Features: Levelling (by human)
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 46
Total Deposit Volume: 238
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19
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
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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:: 248
Unit description: Small amount from unit with no sample number: 3 pieces of sheep-size scrap; one burned, one digested, one very fresh. Little weathering. Looks like small amount of sweepings, or is this what bone from building material looks like? Sample 17 dry-sieved is a small unit, but with larger pieces than most in house. Mostly sheep-size, but several fragments of large mammal skull. Rather weathered, little burning. 100% of 4mm flotation processed. 4mm flotation sorted and recorded completely. Sample 9 has many little crumbles + a few larger pieces of mostly sheep-size taxa. Some crumbles of burnt antler, 2 horn core fragments. Otherwise little burning. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Moderate-size sample, mostly smallish pieces of sheep-size scrap. A couple of human teeth and some bits of skull and rib; since this is above a burial, these were pulled without recording. Some fish, a little microfauna. The human bone is remarkably fresh; the rest is somewhat more variable in weathering although mostly in quite good shape. Looks like fill that incorporates some minimally reworked midden material. Sample 2 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. No human bone in this one. Small sample of little scrappy bits. Nothing over 1 cm. A little burning, no digestion. Some look worn. Looks like floor. Sample 8 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Some human bone pulled without recording. Moderate-size sample of mostly sheep-size scrap, but with a certain amount of large mammal, and a number of diagnostics, including the elusive postcranial pig. A little burning, high and low temperature. Fairly even body part representation. Weathering is variable, with quite a few very fresh pieces. Some coherence; quite a few bits that could be from the same sheep, and another three from the same perinatal sheep/goat. Looks like small-scale midden. Sample 10 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Mostly small sheep-size crumbles, but a few larger pieces (up to 3 cm), a little large mammal. Almost half are burnt, both low and high temperatures. Weathering variable, many quite fresh. Some fish and microfauna. Similar to sample 1. Sample 11 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Small pieces of mostly sheep-size scrap. Some mostly low temperature burning. Only diagnostic is a fragment of distal metapodial. Weathering quite variable with some very fresh, some quite rolled. Looks like fill that incorporates some redeposited bits and some newly added fresh ones, or maybe floor sweepings. Sample 13 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Smallish sample of fairly small pieces, but not just tiny crumbles. Some fish, including some rather large ones by our standards. About half are burnt, mostly carbonized. Weathering rather variable. A little coherence is in two fragments from a proximal and distal metapodial that might be the same bone/same animal. Also a pile of carbonized/calcined crumbles that look like thaty might originally have been one or two pieces (some old breaks, some modern). Looks like fill, with multiple origins, but not too mixed. Sample 16 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Substantial amount of bone of human bone removed without recording. Largish sample, with many large pieces of mostly sheep-size animals, but some large mammal as well. A little burning. Quite a lot of fish. Three pieces of a perinatal medium mammal, probably carnivore (dog?). Weathering variable. Some coherence, less reworked than many fills, but clearly mixed origins. 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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