Unit 1590

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded

 

Dimensions: 1.70 x 1.06 x 0.03 - 0.12m 

 

Discussion: Large lumps of brick, marl and burnt clay become more common to the west. That part of the deposit beneath the wall is far more compact. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: sunny 

Consistency: Firm or soft 

Colour: generally 10YR 4/2 - 10YR 5/3 dark greyish brown - brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: 5% charcoal 2% coprolite? 2% plaster/marl 1% plant silicates 2% discrete lumps of mudbrick, occasional patches of greenish (?) marl c5Y 5/3 

Post-depositional Features: occasional fine/med roots 

Basal Boundary: Sharp wavy/ sloping down to west 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1595 below: (Click to view the record) 1588 

 

Dry sieve volume: 110 

Total Deposit Volume: 128 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 115

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 22  Unit description: Sheep-sized remains are only rough 50-60% of this assemblage; looks fairly abnormal for a midden. While there aren't many chunks of long bone shafts that are preserved, there are a good amount of equid and cattle phalanges and a well-preserved cattle acetabulum. The equid remains are all largely small-medium equid, though there's a probably-articulated large equid atlas/axis. Sheep-sized remains are relatively evenly split between post-cranial and cranial remains. A few bird bones were also recovered. A few elements that may serve as C14 samples were sub-bagged and recorded. There is also an articulated Bos third phalanx/distal sesamoid. Flot #314 (>4 mm, 100%): several large fish vertebrae but otherwise largely sheep-sized flot scrap (weighed 53 grams). Also one join between tooth fragment in flot and dry sieve (reunited to dry sieve, which was recorded [F15].

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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