Unit 1266 

Category: layer    dug in 1996
 
Area: North 
 
Interpretive Categories: ?floor 
 
Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
 
Dimensions: 94 x 90 cm 
 
Discussion: Room fill
The top soil of the floor taken off.
It includes some pieces of plasters of the walls. They were mixed with the soil.
I noticed that there is a thin layer of clay on the floor. 
 
Consistency: Moderately weak to very weak 
Colour: 7.5 YR 8/1; 7.5 YR 6/3 
Texture: Silty 
Bedding: Massive 
Inclusions: Wall or floor plaster aggregates 
Post-depositional Features: Thin roots 
Basal Boundary: Prominent, wavy to irregular knife edge 
 
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
above: (Click to view the record) 1358, 1295, 1359 
below: (Click to view the record) 1241, 1272 
equal to: (Click to view the record) 1252 
 
Dry sieve volume: 40 
Total Deposit Volume: 84 
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
 
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): North.?G 
Buildings: (Click to view the record)

1 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

110 
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: Archive,Building Material,Charcoal,Faunal,Heavy Residue,Obsidian,Shell 
 
Lab Team Data

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ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: Yes
Count of records:: 1 
Ceramic Records: No
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 3 
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 16 
Unit description: Very small unit. Two elements; one of which is burnt. Element size are 5 and 7 and both are bone scraps. Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Small sample consisting of bits of mostly sheep-size scrap, up to ca. 3 cm. Some burning, high and low temperature. Weathering variable, no coherence; looks like fill, very secondary. A good bit of amphibian microfauna. Last number = 16
Figurine Records: No
GroundStone Records: No
Heavy Residue Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 
Microfaunal Records: No
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Phytolith Sample: Yes
Count of records:: 1 
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