 Unit 16590
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| Category: Layer dug in 2008 |
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| Area: South |
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| Interpretive Categories: midden |
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| Data Category Information: Location: external |
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| Discussion: midden deposit. Respects the south face of b56 south wall (F2069). In part 16590 was with the underlying midden layer-the unit was split when fire spots/pits were encounterd. As such, there will be some cross contamination with the underlying midden. |
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| Recognition: colour. Texture. Midden-like |
| Definition: clear |
| Execution: trowel and mattock |
| Condition: hot. Dry |
| Consistency: mod-compact. Friable |
| Colour: brownish mid-grey |
| Texture: clay-y sandy silt |
| Bedding: layered |
| Inclusions: freq ash. Freq charcoal lumps and flecks. Very freq phytoliths. Freq bone frags and large chunks |
| Post-depositional Features: animal burrows. Mellart truncation and horizontal truncation by construction/land associated with wall feature 134 (scraping) |
| Basal Boundary: clearn at southern end. Northern end diffuse |
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| Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): |
| above:17007. 17005 |
| below:16577. 16578 |
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| Dry sieve volume: 1570 |
| Total Deposit Volume: 1596 |
| Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 32 |
| Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1 |
| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
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| Settlement Phase: |
| Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present |
| Associated Hodder Level (from Space): South.R |
| Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| Features::
none |
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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: Faunal |
| Finds Material Stored: Archive,Building Material,Charcoal,Clay,Faunal,Flint,Obsidian,pottery,shell,Stone |
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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: Yes
Count of records:: 1 | | Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released | Clay Object Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 | Chipped Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 5 | Conservation Recorded: Yes
Count of records:: 1 | Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 735 | Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 | | GroundStone Records: No | Heavy Residue Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 | 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: Yes
Count of records:: 2 |
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