Unit 2059

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 1.75m w-e, 1.05m n-s, 0.10 to 0.05m thick 

 

Discussion: Lowermost fill of pit [2050]. There is nothing particularly distinctive about it and it seems to represent the first infilling of the pit rather than activity in the base of the pit 

 

Execution: trowel and mattock 

Condition: warm and bright 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 10Y/R 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: small charcoal flecks - 2%, phytoliths - 2% 

Post-depositional Features: none apparent 

Basal Boundary: clear, distinct, wavy, inclined irregularly 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2050 below: (Click to view the record) 2047 

 

Dry sieve volume: 180 

Total Deposit Volume: 211 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 113

Features:: (Click to view the record) 91 (pit)

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:: 10  Unit description: Tiny unit consisting of four bits of scrap and an equid incisor. About evenly divided between sheep-size and large mammal. Well-preserved, but somewhat encrusted, some look a bit abraded. Resembles upper levels of pit more than 2047. No burning. [unit completed in 2000 study season]. Sample 1, 4mm flotation, analysed completely. No diagnostics: mostly unidentifiable crumbles, About 15% burnt, no discernable digestion, one possible microfauna or bird long bone, one fish vertebra. Pieces somewhat battered. Dry sieved material contained 2 large animal long bone splinters, old breaks, no burning/gnawing/digestion, weathering slight. One is coated with a hard black tarry deposit. Last number = 10

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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