Unit 20171

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

 

Area: TPC 

 

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Interpretive Categories: infill,midden 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: EW 2.20 x NS 1.50 depth 0.25 m 

 

Discussion: This is a midden layer in the south part of trench 1. It was very friable and full of organic material, but not many pottery sherds. It was truncated by a postneolithic cut.

Should have 11 x finds.

X2 (obsidian tool) - delated from x finds list because found during dry sieving. CM 

 

Recognition: stratigraphic position, color 

Definition: stratigraphic position 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: blackish orange 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: animal bones, pottery, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20126 below: (Click to view the record) 20234, 20283 

 

Dry sieve volume: 680 

Total Deposit Volume: 710 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 10

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: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 110

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 486

Features:: none

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 2012 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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 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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