Unit 20622
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Dump element in filling of B.102
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous
Discussion: This unit was an ashy layer of clay and silt, situated between F3688 and wall F.3655 (southern wall of B.102). It was first recognized when removing room fill U.20481. First I thought it was over or contemporary with the infant burial F3691, but when this skeleton was removed and documented it became evident that this unit was below that burial feature as part of it became recognized then. 20622 was excavated with trowel, and when it comes to X.3 (human cranial fragments) with a wooden thin stick. Beneath the layer came further room fill although more homogenous than the one over this unit; an earlier dump element (20911). 20622 contained some animal bones and three osteological specimen which have been X-finded: X1 horn core, X2 Homo cran. fragm. and X3 Animal (large herbivor) scapula.
This unit seems to be an element which should be grouped as a dump element in the room filling. It should be seen in connection with the burial, and associated with the closing acitivities of B102. This is the most probable interpretation perhaps, since it was so special and different from the rest of room fill layers.
Consistency: Soft and easy to free with trowel
Colour: Greyish brown with black spots (of ash)
Texture: Clay and silt
Bedding: Layered with ash lenses and brown soil
Inclusions: Ash lenses and animal bones (not handpicked but in sample)
Post-depositional Features: Animal furrowing. Also disturbed in 2012, so the original boundaries to the west is lost.
Basal Boundary: Clear, and abrupt.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 9
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
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 2013 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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