Unit 19095

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: mud core 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: re-used superstructure; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Discussion: Compacted shaped mud core of western pedestal. It seems to be constructed around the skull and posts on each side of the skull in some kind of regular layered fashion. The shape is rectangular. The pedestal seems to have been covered with a layer of grey/ white plaster before being covered with red paint. There were probably 2-3 layers of red, that also continue down onto the platform. 

 

Recognition: Shaped clay 

Definition: by pedestal 

Execution: scalpel and leaf trowel 

Condition: hot and dry 

Consistency: firm but friable 

Colour: brown and grey 

Texture: clay silty 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: small fragments of bone and pebbles 

Post-depositional Features: occ insect burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19096, 17564, 19097 below: (Click to view the record) 19010 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

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 

Related Photos: 9 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 77

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 336

Features:: (Click to view the record) 8135 (podium/pedestal)

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

Ceramics Data for 2010 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 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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