Unit 4209

Category: cluster    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: obsidian hoard 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Material: obsidian; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: worked bone

 

Dimensions: 0.24 x 0.24m, 0.09m thick 

 

Description: Cluster of obsidian lying within infilling (4205). 

 

Discussion: Tightly packed group of large roughly shaped pieces of obsidian and part of a bone ring. Appear to have been deposited in an organic container during infilling (4205). The cleaness of the surrounding fill and the way the shape changed as they went down argue against it being in a cut from above. Could be related to 4205 X.1 and cluster (4210).
Discovered by hitting very hard with a mattock.
The broken bone ring has interesting implications as it is unlikely that it had any recovery value, therefore hoard was not intended to be recovered?
nail points 918.64/974.9, 918..77/975.34.
NB/ originall allocated to earlier B.9/Space 166 but post re allocated during publication work (08/04/08) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): equal to: (Click to view the record) 4205, 4210 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 43

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 2

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 117

Features:: none

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 3  Unit description: Flot Sample 2393 This unit number is for the obsidian hoard found in the fill of Building 9. Craig did not believe that it was associated with Building 2. The bone consists of 10 bone chips, all less than 1/2 a cm. Three of them are burnt. The colour ranges from mid- to dark brown. There is also a part of an elaborate bone ring.

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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