Unit 16466
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: burnt back fill
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: The layer is at the North East corner of Space 336.
Highly burnt layer, looks as though it is formed in a single episode, burnt at the same time and not deposited gradually. Deposit contains a lot of charcoal remains and ashy lenses. There is one burnt timber part resting in the deposit on an animal bone. It was at an angle of 45 - 60 degrees. There was another burnt timberremain at the southern part of the layer but it was just 2cm thick.
Recognition: highly burnt at the corner - colour
Definition: clear
Execution: trowel
Condition: warm to hot
Consistency: loose to strong
Colour: blackish brown with ash and charcoal inclusions and dark brown colour from the burnt bricks
Texture: ashy silt with sandy loam
Bedding: compound
Inclusions: burnt timber, burnt bone, charcoal, obsidian
Post-depositional Features: ant holes and root action (very little)
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 610
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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 Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 16 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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