Unit 1728

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: South 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit

 

Dimensions: max N-S 2.00 m, max E-W: 1.25 m, thickness: 0.08 m 

 

Discussion: Going deeper into pit 101 through stratum # 9. 

 

Execution: Pickaxe and trowel 

Condition: Sunny 

Consistency: Very weak 

Colour: 5 YR 5/3 brown 

Texture: Sandy silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Bone 20%, Sherds 15 %, Obsidian <1%, Stones (5-10 cm) 2%, rounded stones (5-10 mm) 10%, clay 1% 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: Sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1741 below: (Click to view the record) 1714 equal to:# 9

 

Dry sieve volume: 100 

Total Deposit Volume: 140 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds 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 

Buildings:

none 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

1009 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

101 (pit/scoop)
 

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:: 58 
Unit description: A small unit, quite fragmented but with some complete foot bones. Very little burning (black). Some diagnostics are sheep-goat size, some cattle, one pig maxillary jaw (jaw of pig and sheep are deciduous). Complete cattle foot (all phalanges and sesamoids). Last record = F59 ***2010: Now considered post-Chalcolithic.
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 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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