Unit 1658

Category: layer    dug in 1996

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: room fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: White flaky extensive deposit overlying burning. I now think Mellaart whacked a big hole through the floor in search of 'burials' leaving areas by the walls including the central 'L' shaped wall by the oven, and what I'm taking off is the soil that slumped or drifted back in fairly soon afterwards. It's made of plaster, bricky stuff, and silty matrix - lots of plaster in layers but not 'in situ' (c20 - 30%). The height of the underlying 'walls' fooled us into thinking Mellaart stopped at that level, whereas he actually dug down beside the internal 'walls'. 

Execution: NSH 

Consistency: weak to quite strong 

Colour: Too mixed - mid brown to pale greeny plaster. 

Texture: Mixed silt loam to clay 

Bedding: Layered, mixed 

Inclusions: Occasional moderate obsidian; occasional clay ball, occasional small bone, a piece of red painted plaster; occasional human phalanges; occasional medium stone. 

Post-depositional Features: possibly trodden or water lain in several episodes - possibly both! 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic/ accidental? Generally distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1876 below: (Click to view the record) 1663 

Dry sieve volume: 1060 

Total Deposit Volume: 1098 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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  

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