 Unit 2239
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| Category: layer dug in 1997 |
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| Area: Bach |
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| Interpretive Categories: Building fill |
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| Data Category Information: none |
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Discussion: This unit consisted of building fill that was brick-like and hard that was mixed with a finer / dryer (possibly burnt) building fill. These two types of fill were mixed throughout the unit. The unit ended with a uniform moister hard clay brick layer. There were some pieces of clay ball and pottery along with bone and charcoal.
Originally this unit, was a 2x2m sqare, the boundaries are noted by the 4 corner elevation points. It was later extended to the west in order to follow the natural, boundary of the plastered wall indicated on the sketch.
In the northwest corner of this unit (broken line area) there is a lot of obvious bits of charcoal (wood?) and burnt plaster and other building material. There are more salts also. The plaster visible (in plan) from the surface contains some visible red paint in section (from the wall surface) and in the area of painted plaster the concentration of burning is greater. |
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| Consistency: moderately weak |
| Colour: 10YR 6/3 |
| Texture: Sandy clay loam |
| Bedding: Somewhat layered - hard building material and softer layers of soil |
| Inclusions: Charcoal and clay / building materials several irregular clumps of clay all of these in small amounts. 2-5% irregular shapes of all these inclusions. Some pieces show burning - but burning not uniform. Poorly sorted. |
| Post-depositional Features: roots and salts with some animal burrows |
| Basal Boundary: hard building fill |
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| Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): |
| above: (Click to view the record) 2255 |
| below: (Click to view the record) 2227 |
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| Dry sieve volume: 293 |
| Total Deposit Volume: 333 |
| Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3 |
| Number of Related Diary Entries: 3 |
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| Settlement Phase: |
| Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present |
| Associated Hodder Level (from Space): BACH.?G |
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,CBM,Charcoal,clay,Eggshell,Faunal,Heavy Residue,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: Yes | Ceramics GID List: (Click to view the record)
| Clay Object Records: Yes
Count of records:: 7 | Chipped Stone Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 86
Unit description: Fairly small unit contains sheep/goat and cattle. A few pieces of bone have been burnt, digested bone is uncommon. A bone point shows evidence of reuse after breakage. {Actually not worked; equid nasal. -NR 2001} NR 2003: Sample 1 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded as diagnostics and flot frags. It contains a couple of bird bone fragments. It is a moderate size sample with mostly sheep-size scrap, large mammal appearing as a few skull and tooth fragments. Mostly little crumbles, with several pieces in the 2-5 cm range. There is a little burning and some digestion. Surface condition is mostly a bit worn. Looks like fill. Last number = 86 | | 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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