Unit 4869
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: burning event,midden / dump
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: finely bedded
Dimensions: 3.2m+ n-s, 3.1m+ w-e, 0.01 to 0.08m thivk
Discussion: General midden/dump same as (4846) to east but also including burning event (4848) as this became patchier as it went west.
Recognition: unclear
Definition: arbitrary
Execution: mattock + trowel
Condition: moist
Consistency: moderate
Colour: mixed, mainly light to mid greyish brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: moderate small to large bone, moderate charcoal flecks, occasional obsidian / clay ball / burnt material frags. Contains ashy bands.
Post-depositional Features: deep sounding, considerable biturbation from roots / insects
Basal Boundary: faint, smooth, anthropogenic, sloping down to west and south
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 495
Total Deposit Volume: 585
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
| Buildings: none | |
Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| |
| 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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 25
Unit description: A little bit recorded for Bayliss radiocarbon study. 2014 recording (looked at DS and at flot sample S. 3, should be 3 other flot samples somewhere): medium-sized for a midden, large by other unit standards. Surface conditions are mostly normal to fairly poor in this generally highly processed unit, which is dominated by 003-size remains. Caprines are the most common taxa, then cattle; present in small numbers are equid, Sus, fox, turtle, fish, hare and bird. The 003-size bones are quite splintered, with a modal fragment size of 2-3 cm, and the Bos remains are also generally quite smashed (modal size perhaps 5-6 cm). There are few fragments in the unit longer than about 5-6 cm, and very few longer than 7 cm. There are fewer caprine teeth and foot elements than I'd expect for the number of splinters, and quite low numbers of axial elements--shaft splinters dominate; there are almost no identifiable epiphyseal ends. Many of the bones look rolled and generally beaten up; they're more worn than exfoliating. It looks like heavy processing of meaty caprine parts, plausibly involving grease production, and then deposition in an area where they were rolled and trampled. The 007 elements are also quite broken up; they look to have been subject to similar degrees of processing (though their deposition is not perfectly parallel to that of the 003s-- there are more teeth (n=3 or 4 out of maybe 50 Bos specimens), though that could simply reflect sampling error in the much smaller assemblage of Bos remains). There are at least three pigs represented here by one mandible with heavily worn teeth, some frags of lightly worn adult Ms, and a loose and essentially unworn dp4; all pig remains were smashed up during excavation, so it's hard to say exactly what was present in the ground. Generally looks like processed leftovers, with morespecies variation than typical of site's upper levels. Additional 302g of no-size-class bones.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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
main sponsors
secondary sponsors
