Unit 4290
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: cheese,pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 0.9m E-W x 1.09m N-S
Discussion: Fill of shallow cut pit. Silty - clay matrix in which were contained a large number of clay balls (cluster 4291) Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve but probably not
Recognition: Hardened grayish clay matrix containing numerous clay ball fragments
Definition: Apparently restricted within cut
Execution: Trowel from edges
Condition: Hard and dry, truncated by fire installation F
Consistency: Firm
Colour: Dark grayish brown
Texture: Silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: <2% small obsidian, shell, <5% moderate bones and stones
Post-depositional Features: None apparent
Basal Boundary: Clear smooth, anthropic
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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:: 34
Unit description: Priority Unit Flot sample 2475, 2493 A rodent grave yard, as well as a clay ball pit in the southwest corner of Building 6. Cut by the oven that is composed of units 4173 - 77 1 and 2 mm flots full of rodent bones - these were not analysed, the other flot samples were completely sorted and recorded. In addition to many rodent bones, the 4mm fraction contains the usual small amount of tiny burnt pieces of bone. The rest of the bone is generally light brown in colour, not heavily stained. There are some large long bone fragments as well as the usual background noise. Dry sieved material was analysed in 2000; even though the unit sheet claims that there was no dry sieve for this unit. [??] There are no identifiables: scrap includes one large fragment of long bone from a large animal, two tooth fragments from sheep or dog-sized animal, and some long bone pieces from sheep-sized animals; one of these, a proximal tibia shaft fragment, has a few cut marks. All breaks are predepositional. Two tiny unidentifiable fragments are burned, and there is no digestion or gnawing. The pieces are battered and are of quite different surface appearance, implying that the deposit is mixed and perhaps redeposited. The large animal long bone has a large fragment size, much larger than anything else in the unit - this is mainly due to its robustness, but might reinforce the conclusion that this deposit is mixed: that bones in this unit have come from different sources with different pressures on them. There are no rodent bones in this material.Figurine Records: No Ground Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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