Unit 1040

Category: layer    dug in 1995

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floors 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: 2.18 x 0.73m 

Discussion: Multiple layers of plaster floor, and grey clayey make-up. At S end only 2 layers exist, running fairly level to the edge of the vertical plaster in the wall marking the S edge of the blocked gap. At the N end, the plaster layers are very thick, and lap up against the slightly overhanging built-up edge of the structure in NW corner. There are at least 4 layers of plaster, probably 5 or 6 at N end, and these dip sharply towards the gap in the wall. It was impossible to follow the chosen plaster layer all the way south - it jut disappeared at what I found was the S edge of the gap. A look in the 'section' formed by an animal run on the edge of Mellaart's excavation showed that there were indeed a further 5 or 6 layers of plaster in the 'gap' area, and nothing more in the S end apart from make-up clay. 

Execution: trowel, leaf 

Condition: hot, bright, sunny, dry 

Consistency: very compact 

Colour: 10YR 6/3 pale brown 

Texture: silty clay/clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features: floors very worn - often disappear or only fractions of mm thick in centre 

Basal Boundary: clear, onto clay make-up 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1045 below: (Click to view the record) 1039 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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