Unit 1075

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: pit fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: posthole; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.70m x 0.30m x 0.53m 

Discussion: The thick plaster layer in this fill could be a plaster lined re-cut, but rather broken up - not clear. It has red paint on a layer at the base and 2 more red layers. A similar layer of red painted plaster occurred below (1069) and above (1075) and could have been a plaster-lined re-cut - though it is not properly contiguous (i.e. its broken). The plaster is very thick and looks like floor rather than wall plaster ( i.e. a few thick layers rather than multiple thin ones) but some chunks appear to wall plaster. Lower fill is middeny - lots of charcoal and bone. This is the fill - in several layers - of a pit cut right into the corner, undercutting the walls slightly. 14/8 - following opening up of wall blocking, its now clear there was a red painted layer of plaster running up to the gap in space 108. This floor was truncated by cut 1080 which contains red plaster in the fill. this may therefore be the origin of the red plaster; on the other hand, as the red paint is on one of the latest floors, it could also suggest it spread across to the north in a shallow basin! 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool overcast 

Consistency: Various weak - strong 

Colour: Various: 7.5yr 3/2 dark brown for charcoal layers, 2.5YR 6/3 light yellowish brown for plastery layers. 

Texture: plastery: silty clay, charcoal: silty clay loam 

Bedding: layered - several different fills 

Inclusions: plaster- frequent medium - large, often with a layer of red paint; frequent medium charcoal in 2 layers, occasional bone: small and medium 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: rather unclear during excavation although in section very clear anthropogenic boundary ie cut. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1080 below: (Click to view the record) 1069 

Dry sieve volume: 140 

Total Deposit Volume: 140 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

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  

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