Unit 15371
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: plaster floor
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: EW 0.52m - NS 0.93m - 0.025m
Discussion: This unit was assigned to the plaster feature discovered after the removal of the fill represented by the arbitrary layer 15364. Ist characteristics, particularly ist evenness and the features of ist surface, strongly suggesting that this may have been a floor in Space 446. Of a very light grey or pale yellow colour, it shows evidence for extensive disturbance caused by animals, particularly on ist southern edge. The relationship between this floor/unit and the surrounding features or events is not clear. It should be noted that the total extent of this floor is unknown since, apart from the surface that has been exposed, it continues towards north under the baulk, towards the west under F.3320 and towards the east under the baulk. No connection therefore seems to exist between this floor and F.3320 which could be an indication that the latter feature must have been constructed at a later date than the floor. No sharp boundary exists towards the south between the floor and the fill and this area is greatly disturbed by animal burrows. No patches of plaster that might have been related to this floor have been found in the southern half of Space 446. A possible explanation for this could be that a pit may have been dug on this area. No trace of this pit has, however, been found as yet and the stratigraohy of the corresponding section does not support this hypothesis. The extension of the trench towards the north and east and the removal of F.3320 would shed more light into the extend og this floor and ist connection with the walls of the building it may have been related to. Vertically, it is clear that this floor represents the last of a series of replastering events which were revealed after removal of a partition from the southern side of this floor. Units 15395 (to the west), 15399 (centre-east) and 15398 (east), of very similar characteristics to floor U.15371, and lying direclty beneath it, represent previous stages in the evolutuon of this floor. On the contrary, 16924 and 15341, lying direclty on U.15371 in the northeast corner of Space 446 would represent later stages of replastering, which seem not to have affected the western side of this floored area.
Season 2013: This floor layer, discovered and investigated in 2011, was removed as part of collective unit 31186 in 2013.
Recognition: flat, light grey to pale yellow plaster surface
Definition: clear to the N (into the baulk), W (under F.3320), E (into the baulk) and south
Execution: trowel, small pick, brush
Condition: under shelter, warm, light wind
Consistency: firm plaster surface
Colour: light grey/ pale yellow
Texture: clay plaster
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: animal bones, pot sherds
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: flat orange-brown plaster surface (15395)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 84
Total Deposit Volume: 114
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 7
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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: 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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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