Unit 19793

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: make-up,plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: single

Discussion: This is an earth-beaten and clayish floor within what seems to be main room Sp.436 of building B.74. It is same as platform F.2892 situated in the north-east corner of the building. Both of these features were associated with nothern wall F.3577 of B.74 and were constructed on a make-up layer that sealed nothern foundation F.3576 of that building. At the time of TP excavation (2007) the floor was only register in the nothern section and, as a consequence, no archive and flotation samples were taken and no individual unit number was assigned to it (part of unit 13532 was arbitrary associated with the floor in post-excavation study season). In 2016 this section was cleaned and a part of the floor and platform was excavated in the course of GDN research. The occupation surface of these features was very thin, however covered by a very distinct phytholith layer. Additionally, there was an aurochs mandible (977.69, 993.92, 1016.36) found just underneath the platform (excavated within the same unit number as the floor). It seems that these faunal remains may be interpreted as a foundation deposit. 

Consistency: soft/friable 

Colour: greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: phytholiths 

Post-depositional Features: truncation by burial chamber Sp.327 

Basal Boundary: sharp, distinct, distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17641, 19791, 19792 below: (Click to view the record) 13532 equal to: (Click to view the record) 13532, 13532 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 2 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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