Unit 4183
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: Plaster
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: mixed; Deposition: multiple
Dimensions: 1.40 x 1.30
Discussion: Poorly preserved, possible plaster covering over make-up of platform. Only covers some of the platfrom area. On excavation, revealed to be a covering deposit make-up for the platform, this was taken off to reveal features which are not hopefully, truncated by Mellaart. Finds include bone, ribs, hoen, obsidian debris and clay fragments.
Recognition: Below Mellaart's backfill
Definition: Plaster covering the fill of the platform
Execution: trowel
Condition: poor
Consistency: friable
Colour: grey, white, brown fill
Texture: sandy limey silt, with sandy silt inclusions
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: occational charcoal <2%
Post-depositional Features: root and animal action, mellaart truncation
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 915
Total Deposit Volume: 933
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII
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:: 74
Unit description: Flot 2, >4mm, 100% - diagnostics only Platform on north wall of Building 6. The top layers may have been partially excavated by Mellaart and there is definitely some disturbance. Several discontinuous layers have been included in this unit since this may be fairly recent disturbance. A large, unworked red deer antler was embedded in the plaster (F1), but did not appear to have been covered in plaster. It was not associated with any other finds. The unit has the normal range of small mixed pieces, but also a number of large bones some of which may have been whole or substantially whole prior to excavation. Colour was generally light brown among the larger pieces and medium brown to grey among the smaller pieces. Burning only occurred occasionally on the smaller pieces and never on the larger ones. Despite the mixture, element representation is poor, mainly ribs and scapula among the large pieces. Most of the identifiable bones are 007 size, although there is some sheep/goat including a large part of a goat horn. There is also one rodent long bone and a few bird long bone fragments. There is also one very odd piece of worked scapula and a fragment of a bone ring. In general the unit appears to have a floor-like deposit, but with many large unworn pieces mixed in. Last Number = 73Figurine 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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