Unit 1544
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: fill of cut
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 0.94m x 1.56m x (0.15-0.27m)
Discussion: Removal of fill of cut 1546 to a layer of ashy, charcoal material, apparently defining its base. This extends beyond the possible cut at its eastern edge, previously excavated. The fill appears to represent several episodes of deposition, as various different lenses were observed, so it was decided that the southern half of the cut should be excavated by layer. The basal boundary at which the unit was finished, appeared to show several layers of deposition of varying materials, sloping down to the West. Each layer removed, peeled easily from the Northern boundary of the cut, but the layers were not visible in section.
Execution: trowel, mattock
Condition: morning sun
Consistency: very firm
Colour: various (see units1593, 1601, 1606, 1609)
Texture: silt clay loam with charcoal/ash lenses
Bedding: heterogeneous, layered
Inclusions: 6% charcoal (<30mm); 4% plaster (<30mm); 4% clay (<40mm); <2% hackberry; <2% phytoliths
Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation
Basal Boundary: wavey unintentional anthropogenic boundary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 245
Total Deposit Volume: 262
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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: No 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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