Unit 2218
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 2.0 x 1.70m
Discussion: This unit consists of building material and loose fill within the larger room of building 3. The northern edge of the 2x2 contains the outer wall of the house, as does the eastern edge. These areas were not excavated in this unit (see plan). The rest of the unit was taken down approx. 10 cm to a moderately clear surface. This surface is not a floor, but possibly consolidated fallen building material. This lower boundary was semi-arbitrary since such surfaces can be found at many elevations throughout the unit. The deteriorating areas of plaster was found in the west of the unit. Moving west from this point is a dark line of soil (very clear) which may be the edge of a platform. There is some red soil in the south which may be collapsed mudbrick and there are also patches of ashy soil in the center of the unit.
RET:
When carefully brushed we could see the lines/burned ridges of the possible roof fall going in E-W direction in SW corner of unit. Cut at W end by grave pit 2236.
The plaster complex + wall / relief showed v. clearly in NW part of unit, clay balls at edge.
The Northern part of this unit is very humid. The plaster does seem to be going deeper. I'm not sure what is in situ here. I suggest we wait to go lower & then see. Maybe the clay balls are spider nests?
25-29. 7.1998
New lowest point fallen. Take this stuff lower. Remove fallen plaster lumps + wall frags. Stop at roof (2238) + clay lines to its north. Hard but crumbly.
Consistency: weak
Colour: 10YR 6/3
Texture: silty loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: areas of ash (2 %); plaster (2%); bone (<2%). Trace amounts of stone, charcoal and shell.
Post-depositional Features: roots in western central portion
Basal Boundary: n/a
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 183
Total Deposit Volume: 209
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 10
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 143
Unit description: This is material from dry sieve and flotation. Flotation sample 1, 4mm, 100% sorted, only diagnostics recorded. This is a tiny unit. There are mostly sheep bone and a few cattle bone and teeth. This unit has mostly sheep-size bone. There are different anatomical bones. This unit has fragments of jaw, teeth, long bone such as tibia, radius, metapodial and ribs. The bone is smashed into tiny fragments, only teeth are complete. There are a lot of scrap and some diagnostic fragments of bone. A few scraps of bone are burnt at low temperature. They are grey in color. Very little of the bone has gnawing, digestion and weathering. The rest of the bone is somewhat eroded (matte surface). Most of the fragments of horn core could have come from one animal. This unit is more like fill than midden, lots of sheep-size bone with good condition, but few diagnostics and low coherence. There are fragments of bird bone, shell, probably mussel. There is one fragment of rib that was cut by a metal tool. There are microfauna, fish bone and five digestion pieces in flot frags. The rest of the pieces are small (1-2 cm). Some of them are calcined and carbonized. X10 is a cattle carpal that was collected as a piece of plaster. It is heavily weathered. Last number = 142Figurine 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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