Unit 15160
Category: Layer dug in 2010
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: roomfill with cluster
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: Cluster with roomfill in space 449.
Photogrammetry nails:
1. E 699.112, N 974.989, H 1004.678
2. E 699.074, N 974.060, H 1004.716
3. E 698.073, N 973.884, H 1004.667
4. E 697.999, N 974.910, H 1004.611
Unit 15160 is a cluster with roomfill in space 449, being located between features 5057, 5067, 3324 and 3326.
In the corners of the room are clusters of big pottery sherds. A huge amount of worked bone also turned up. Several pieces of flint and obsidian of impressive size and a lot of animal bones also came out of this unit. The upper part of the unit was very compact due to being left open the last year and being trampled on for quite a long time The untouched soil of the unit was quite loose, and contained, besides the huge amount of finds, some collapsed lumps of plaster in front of F. 3324 as well as part of floor in the NE corner, where some sherds are sticking upright in roomfill. This unit also contained a lot of clay lumps, as well as chunks of mortar.
Some of the sherds seem to fit to sherds belonging to Unit 15158.
I have the impression that the small finds are clustering around the pottery clusters.
The first interpretation of the unit as a pit turned out to be wrong, as it seems to respect the outlines of the secondary features.
Recognition: loose texture with pottery cluster in space 449
Definition: clear in W, S, E; arbitrary in N
Execution: handpick, trowel, brush, wooden spatula, pumper
Condition: pleasant breeze
Consistency: soft-loose with compact spots of mortar
Colour: dark brown, middle brown, yellowish brown
Texture: silty
Bedding: heterogeneous fill containing a pottery cluster, lenses of clay, plaster, burned clay
Inclusions: a lot of pottery, animal bone, some obsidian and flint, clay and phitoliths
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, roots
Basal Boundary: flat, arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 260
Total Deposit Volume: 326
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 44
Number of Related Diary Entries: 19
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 2010 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 143 Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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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