Unit 21764
Category: Layer dug in 2015
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: layers of plaster on platform
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted
Discussion: This unit is a continuation of a series of plastered lenses sitting on the main platform f. 3440. Like the previous unit on top of it (u. 21738), it presents a firm soil, varying from white to light grey micro lenses of plaster. It contains a few inclusions of charcoal and little nodules of clay (<1cm in diameter) mainly on the eastern portion of the surface. This unit contains 3 distinct friable plaster layers. Top most a thin gray layer. Below a thin white, micro-layer and the lowest a thicker grayish plaster layer again.
Consistency: Firm
Colour: White, light grey
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: compound
Inclusions: charcoal, plaster and clay aggregates
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: distinct, smooth, anthropogenic, constructional
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 23
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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 2015 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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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