Unit 2269
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: fill/building
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: Cleaning o.s. 4 of NC area of Space 86 digging through dark soil with ash. Much plaster, almost horizontal, pretend floors. Dig down to possible floor (brown clay). Unit is all fill N of roof stuff and E of wall and feaure 155/156. Much of fill is ashy, finely deposited material between large lumps of wall fill. It looks as, though this stuff has been slowly deposited among falling wall.
S3 plaster ws taken foe a sample for colour (red) that we have in this part of building 3.
17.8.98
Extend unit E-wards to edge of platform (Feature 162).
Recognition: composition, colour
Definition: lower boundary on top of plaster floor (white)
Execution: trowel and brush
Condition: medium dry
Consistency: loose
Colour: 7.5 YR 4/6 greyish yellowish brown
Texture: silty sand
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: very frequent small gypsum and ash
Post-depositional Features: bioturbation inc. roots
Basal Boundary: plaster or floor surface
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 160
Total Deposit Volume: 252
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 6
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 42
Unit description: A small unit with average degree of fragmentation but the bones from 07 size animals are more common than is typical. None of the bone has been digested although the occasional fragment has suffered from being burnt. 4mm flotation samples 2, 4, 6 and 7 were recorded for diagnostics only but their makeup was similar to the material that was recovered from the dry sieve. Last number = 43Figurine 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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