Unit 22187

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: group of floor and make-up layers 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This unit sheet encompasses 3 superposed layers which all abutts the eastern side of wall 230. The layers are all highly eroded and the preserved part is between 2 cm (southern part) and 5 cm (northern part) thick. Most likely part of ledge defined in the 90s.
1.The upper layer is friable, dark brown, silty, with phytholiths and charcol inclusions (2%; charcol inclusions: 0.3 cm max.). Visible only in the section due to a very bad conservation, it is probably what remains of the preparation of an upper floor that is not preserved. The layer, which is 0.5 cm thick, is extended all along the eastern side of the wall and abutts both sides of the battress (U22186; F.248). The construction of the buttress seems therefore prior to the layer in question.
2.The same thing can be said for the layer below: firm, grey-yellowish, silty-clay, layerd, with some phytoliths inclusions (2%), it is probably what remains of a highly eroded floor that, as the layer above, abutted the buttress and was therefore constructed after it. The layer is 1 cm thick.The extension of the layer is the same as the one above.
3. A third layer abutts the north-western side of the wall: firm, light brown-reddish, silty-clay, it contains phytholiths and charcol (2 mm) inclusions (5%). This layer might be what remains of the ledge excavated in 1998 (F.423), most likely its core.The layer, that is higly erpded, is 4 cm thick. 

Consistency: heterogeneous: different layers have been excavated with the same unit (see discussion for descriptive details) 

Colour: heterogeneous: different layers have been excavated with the same unit (see discussion for descriptive details) 

Texture: heterogeneous: different layers have been excavated with the same unit (see discussion for descriptive details) 

Bedding: heterogeneous: different layers have been excavated with the same unit (see discussion for descriptive details) 

Inclusions: heterogeneous: different layers have been excavated with the same unit (see discussion for descriptive details) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: constructional, very sharp, distinct, smooth form, slightly sloped from east to west, smooth surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22186 below:none 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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