Unit 2227
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: building fill,pit fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 1.70 x 1.50 m.
Description: This soil was loose, dry and easy to excavate. It consisted of many layers of basically silty soil, with few pebbles but some chunks of building material. There had been serious root disturbances, as well as plenty of human trampling. The soil was cut by 2205 and skeleton 2219. The soil was basically grey-brown, with little color variation. It was full of cracks and pores left by roots. Below the top softness, the soil became slightly yellower and firmer, with a bit more charcoal. The paler building material which lined the grave was excavated as part of this unit.
Discussion: This was excavated as one unit of building fill but as excavation proceeded it was clear that its E half was much looser (of unit 2214) than W half. At the same time the northern edge was also loose but different from E half. N. edge has some large lumps of building materials mixed with ash. This unit was taken down to just below the cut (2205). By scraping, the line was well defined between pit fill and room fill.
Consistency: weak
Colour: 10 YR 5/4
Texture: silty clay loam
Bedding: layered
Inclusions: charcoal, building materials, plant remains
Post-depositional Features: bioturbation - roots and rodents
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 305
Total Deposit Volume: 334
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
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:: 81
Unit description: A medium-small unit, with bone mostly fragmented to 2-3cms, but with larger chunks to 9-10cms. Most not highly weathered, i.e. to stage 2-3, and most unburnt, with a few burnt black and one or two calcined. Overall, appearance of material is quite fresh and doesn't seem too rolled or disturbed, although there are a few digested pieces, and a couple carnivore gnawed, meaning it must have been exposed for dogs to work over. interestingly, there is a rib fragment that has gnaw marks most consistent with human chewing. 02 size: there is a single long bone fragment. 03 size: fair amount of long bones and ribs with just 2 vertebrae, some forelimb and hindlimb and skull, but with very few teeth and foot bones. 07 size: some long bones, few ribs, one vertebra, skull fragments (and one Bos tooth, with just a single forelimb (equid scapula) and hindlimb (07 size patella) bone. Additionally, there is one small carnivore calcaneum, maybe badger. Also, a human femur, passed on to human remains lab. Observation of a lack of rib heads. Ribs must be broken off at neck and the heads are elsewhere. 4mm sample 1 had diagnostics only pulled; the rest counted as flot frags. in addition to a few diagnostic 03 size remains from here, one fish vert was pulled. The unit sheet describes this unit as building fill, but it doesn't look like typical fill (small fragments, surfaces rolled). Rather, it appears to be quite fresh and undisturbed, with consumption and processing remains, although with little integrity. This unit was also apparently cut for skeleton 2219, so it would be interesting to know whether the human femur could be part of that skeleton, or was actually in the surrounding fill.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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