Unit 1994

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: lowest floor 

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

Dimensions: 1.9 x 1.5 m 

Discussion: Lowest floors on platform F.37 - very thin, only one or two layers thick at most. (GML)

Against S wall the plaster dipped sharply into a runnel which wall filled with mixed soil/charcoal/burnt brick etc. which was later plastered over for the upper floors creating a bump of "rubbish" against the wall and below the floor. There are two possible straightforward explanations; 1) the wall subsided, pushing down the floor and this was renovated with a raised floor to cope with further subsidence. 2) there was a step against the wall as there seems to be against the N wall of the NW platform. Why this should happen is not obvious, so I tend to go for the subsidence story. Hopefully once the walls are removed we shall know more. This material was all taken out as one and dry sieved. (NSH 25.08.97) 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry and sunny 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/3 brown 

Texture: gritty clay 

Bedding: layer 

Inclusions: plaster 5-10 %, charcoal 2 % 

Post-depositional Features: N/A 

Basal Boundary: distinctive 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2143 below: (Click to view the record) 2550, 2117 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1917 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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  

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