Unit 21974

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: occupation; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: This unit is composed by a thin floor and a very thick layer of heterogeneous make up, presumably used to raise up the N platform (F3492) and level the surface prior to laying the floor. This layer belongs to the earliest phase of the N platform. Excavated by pickax and trowel. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: grey and light brown 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: layered oriented. floor (1 cm) + make up (14 cm). 

Inclusions: plaster, clay, rare charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow, root damage 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21980, 21976, 21979 below: (Click to view the record) 21934, 21951 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 201 

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 

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

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