Scotland’s First Settlers: Section 3.11 The Zooarchaeology of Sand, Table 136

3.11 The Zooarchaeology of Sand, Table 136 | Rachel Parks & James Barrett

Table 136
class	recovery	topsoil	main shell midden	palaeo	slopewash	organic rich	shell midden	sandy soil	natural	unprov	total

subtotal		0.17	13.03		0.07	0.21	0.02	0.22			13.72
total diagnostic		834.33	2283.68	0.03	89.56	821.40	63.67	73.97	0.61	47.94	4215.19
total number of bones		6234.82	8533.13	10.41	620.27	3206.07	727.10	1552.53	10.07	329.09	21223.49
mammal
diagnostic	4mm	541.36	1437.72		72.50	764.56	48.50	52.54		39.50	2956.68
diagnostic	hc	54.00	156.30								210.30
unidentified	4mm	4721.64	5103.45	10.00	465.04	2056.47	621.74	1413.43	8.50	275.57	14675.84
unidentified	hc	93.00	3.50								96.50
subtotal		5410.00	6700.97	10.00	537.54	2821.03	670.24	1465.97	8.50	315.07	17939.32

bird
diagnostic	4mm	121.50	360.94		12.97	38.64	6.99	10.71	0.50	3.94	556.19
unidentified	4mm	454.83	820.08	0.35	61.59	286.27	31.22	49.82	0.94	1.76	1706.86
subtotal		576.33	1181.02	0.35	74.56	324.91	38.21	60.53	1.44	5.70	2263.05

fish
diagnostic	2–4mm	50.99	114.22	0.03	0.72	5.31	2.98	4.34	0.03	1.56	180.18
diagnostic	4mm	66.33	202.08		3.31	12.82	5.20	6.38	0.08	2.94	299.14
unidentified	2–4mm	91.88	221.59	0.03	2.71	29.12	8.42	12.34	0.02	2.77	368.88
unidentified	4mm	39.12	100.22		1.36	12.67	2.03	2.75		1.05	159.20
subtotal		248.32	638.11	0.06	8.10	59.92	18.63	25.81	0.13	8.32	1007.40

small mammal and amphibian
diagnostic	2–4mm	0.15	12.25		0.03	0.02					12.45
diagnostic	4mm		0.17		0.03	0.05					0.25
unidentified	2–4mm	0.02	0.55		0.01	0.07	0.02	0.22			0.89
unidentified	4mm		0.06			0.07					0.13

Table 136: SFS, Weight of bones from Sand by method of recovery
Key: hand collected (hc); wet sieved greater than 4mm fraction (4mm), wet sieved greater than 2mm fraction (2–4mm)

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