Unit 2249
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Room fill
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 2x2 m
Discussion: This unit consists of room fill surrounding grave. The fill was taken down to approximately 5-10 cm above the bottom of the burrial pit. We stopped at this level because we came into, what looks like 'tumble' in the NE section of the unit. We did not see evidence of this in the south of the unit.
The fill consists of a mix between the typical brown silty loam that exists everywhere, and the reddish clay soil that predominates in the deeper parts of the unit.
Throughout both soil types there is a lot of white plaster bits. This is likely due to the plaster blob (F.155) left unexcavated in the SE and NW of the unit.
There was a concentration of the clay balls in the south of the unit-most of these were assigned X-find numbers, but a few were not found in the excavated dirt.
In 1998 the unit was reopened with a spit that extended it towards the roof.
Consistency: Weak
Colour: 10 Y R 5/4
Texture: silty loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: plaster bits (5cm), mud brick (<2%, up to 5 cm) , charcoal (<2%)
Post-depositional Features: roots, up to 10% in some areas, insects
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 363
Total Deposit Volume: 394
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 13
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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:: 86
Unit description: This is a small-medium unit, apparently grave fill and perhaps some other fill. There are indeed human bits. There is nearly as much large mammal as sheep-size, and certainly more in terms of bulk and weight. Most of it is quite fragmented. The surface condition is variable, with some burning and a little digestion. Little integrity, seems to have mixed origins: dirty fill. Sample 2 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded as diagnostics and flot frags only. It is a moderate size sample, slightly odd in that it has a high proportion of larger pieces. It is generally similar in character to the dry-sieved, with variable surface condition, some burning (somewhat more than the dry-sieved) and some digestion. It contained one fish and one bird bone, and two fragments of sheep/goat phalanges, one of which is digested. Last number = 86Figurine 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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