Unit 21767

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Make-up layers of main floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Unit is a thick layer of clay with many charcoal and ash inclusions located in the main floor area of B 80. It is cut at the w edge by Pillar feature 3433. It laps up onto the clay partition of F. 3442 to the N, the make up/ledge of platform F 3440 to the east (later revealed to be a course of brick and mortar construction abutting the platform floor U. 21774), and borders the hearth (F 7402) to the S. It continues into the space w of the hearth and E of wall F. 5036, that contained the plaster lipping of floor U. 21744. Due to the thickness and durability of the layer it could have served as a major preparation layer or foundational layer for the following micro plastering events (like U. 21759) of the main floors.

Originally thought to be an entirely massive layer due to the lack of laminated layers in the Sw corner near wall F. 5036, it was actually found that the layer near the main floor consists of about 5 micro layers. Mostly gray and brown make up layer with on thin plaster floor lense. It was decided to lump all these layers together in order to proceed with excavations of the main platform. The layers are (from latest to earliest): 1) a thicker (>5cm) homogenous orange clay make up (few inclusions) 2) thin ashy and charcoal rich gray layer 3) whitish brown plaster floor 4) a grayish brown layer with lots of phytoliths (could be chaff material that was deliberately placed at regular patterns as a kind of floor matting) and 5) a misy gray orange make up layer right above the now exposed (but unexcavated) main plaster floor. 

Consistency: Very compact 

Colour: orange-brown, grey, and white 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: charcoal, ash 

Post-depositional Features: truncation 

Basal Boundary: clear, smooth, flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19140 below: (Click to view the record) 19176 

Dry sieve volume: 147 

Total Deposit Volume: 175 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 17

Number of X-Finds 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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