 Unit 4891
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| Category: layer dug in 1999 |
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| Area: South |
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| Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window |
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| Interpretive Categories: Floor raising deposit |
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| Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: non-white laid floor; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation) |
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| Dimensions: 0.89m (E-W) x 0.29m (N-S) x 0.06m thick |
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| Discussion: Block of layered material at interface between 'clean' and 'dirty' areas in Space 173, acting as a raising feature to raise the 'clean' north to a higher level than the 'dirty' south. Possibly truncated in antiquity as it only survives in the western half of the space. |
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| Recognition: Hard ridge overlying floor levels |
| Definition: Hard, dark material overlying pale floors |
| Execution: Trowel from edges |
| Condition: Firm, slightly moist and possibly truncated at the east end |
| Consistency: Firm |
| Colour: Dark greyish brown |
| Texture: Silty clay |
| Bedding: Compound layered |
| Inclusions: <5% small bone and charcoal flecks |
| Post-depositional Features: Some root and insect disturbance |
| Basal Boundary: Clear, smooth, anthropic |
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| Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): |
| above: (Click to view the record) 4899, 4897 |
| below: (Click to view the record) 4810 |
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| Dry sieve volume: 0 |
| Total Deposit Volume: 0 |
| Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2 |
| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
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| Settlement Phase: |
| Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII |
| Associated Hodder Level (from Space): SOUTH.L |
Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| 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: nothing recorded |
| Finds Material Stored: Archive,clay,Obsidian,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 | | Ceramic Records: No | | Clay Object Records: No | Chipped Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 5 | | Conservation Recorded: No | | Faunal Records: No | | Figurine Records: No | | 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: 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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