Unit 16928
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: fill of pit
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: NS: 230 cm; EW: 240 cm; Depth: 100 cm
Discussion: This unit was the lowest layer of pit fill from the whole of f. 3331. The unit was not deep since a potential floor was recognized underneath fairly soon after beginning excavation. Above this floor (of sp. 454), which appears to correlate with a similar discovery in the NE corner of sp. 310/453 on the same level, there may be a few cm of room fill, but the distinction between the pit and the room fill is ambiguous. The unit contained similar inclusions to the rest of f. 3331, i.e. pottery, human bone, large fragments of tile. On the eastern side there is a plaster line that appears to run straight from the wall in sp. 310 (N-->S). As this line continues to the southern edge of the pit it appears disturbed but there may be some mudbrick deposit which has been left at the SE side of the pit base. The base of the pit has been defined (the destinction between 16928 and 16933) by two layers of soil, apparent through one peeling off the other.
Recognition: Arbitrary level of base of f. 3331, cut seen in sp. 454
Definition: loose soil with many inclusions, cut seen in sp. 454
Execution: pick, shovel, trowel
Condition: under shelter
Consistency: soft
Colour: medium dark brown with lime and charcoal inclusions
Texture: silt
Bedding: heterogenous - flecks of lime and charcoal, some more compact areas
Inclusions: human bone, animal bone, pottery, stone, shell, obsidian
Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows
Basal Boundary: roughly flat - meeting potential romfill of sp. 454 or floor of sp. 454 (u. 16933)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 823
Total Deposit Volume: 823
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 3
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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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