Unit 1488

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: floor layer,platform floors 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple

 

Dimensions: 0.75 m x 0.5 m 

 

Description: continued in 97 

 

Discussion: 96: white floors in central area of platform 13
97: After removal of [1487] - the orange packing - the unit was changed, and the next unit [1488] refers to the removal of the white floor layers. This was easily accomplished on the east side of the platform, also possibly revealing that burial [36] was within a plaster-lined pit. On the West side, clear removal of the white floors was more problematic. Here we stopped to remove some of the abutting wall plaster in the hope that this would create a clearer picture of the floor layers.

The Unit number was changed to investigate the plaster-lined pit. 

 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot & windy 

Consistency: moderately strong 

Colour: 2.5 Y 8/1-7/1 White - light grey. 

Texture: silt-loam-clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: no 

Post-depositional Features: roots 

Basal Boundary: platform - distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2512, 2103 below: (Click to view the record) 1487 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2158 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 71

Features:: (Click to view the record) 13 (platform)

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: nothing recorded  

 

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: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 13  Unit description: No dry sieved bone, so sample 1 4 mm flotation sorted and recorded completely. Very small flotation sample, 4 tiny bits of scrap. No burning. Sample 5 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Very small, a few little scrappy pieces, looking quite trampled. No burning. A little (amphibian?) microfauna. Looks like floor. Sample 6 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. Two little bits of scrap, one fairly fresh, one quite rolled/trampled. Looks like floor. Last number = 13

Figurine Records: No

Ground Stone Records: Yes Count of records:: 1

Heavy Residue Records: No

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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