Unit 17522
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Fill of feature
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: Fill of F6050. Contained a figurine of an animal (partial head and torso) and a broken bone ring. The fill was mixed heavily filled brick fragments and silts - with occasional charcoal lumps. It also contained large stuctural elements to the North - mudbrick including fragments with wattle/daub impressions.
Two clay balls were also found in layer (17520).
Recognition: Fill of feature; texture; colour
Definition: Clear
Execution: Trowel and Mattock
Condition: Hot
Consistency: Firm
Colour: Mid reddish brown with mid brown lenses
Texture: Clay silts
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Moderate small frags of burnt bone; very occ. Stone x finds; occ. Charcoal lumps and flecks; occ. Small clay balls (proto beads); occ. Clay bead; occ. Pottery; occ. Shell.
Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows
Basal Boundary: Clear, uneven. Layer below very similar.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 60
Total Deposit Volume: 780
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
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 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:: 53 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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