Unit 1642
Category: layer dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: dump
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 2.90m NS x 0.80m EW x 0.18m
Discussion: A layer of charcoal material sloping down towards the south. Part of a series of dumped deposits which occur on the west edge of what used to be referred to as space 105, and running below the later wall 96/58. this layer must have continued into the space to the west of this wall. IN this space it may have been excavated as part of an arbitrary layer
Execution: Trowel mattock
Condition: Morning after a violent storm. Sunny and some clouds
Consistency: moderately weak
Colour: 2.5Y 4/2
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Bone, obsidian, clay ball <2%, charcoal 2% - 5%
Post-depositional Features: Compressed by wall 96/58 above. Cut by 1610 to the north east.
Basal Boundary: Wavy and indistinct in places, clearer in others. Anthropogenic - a dumped layer
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 417
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
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:: 1
Unit description: X1 is a bone point.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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