Unit 23048

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: packing 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This is a levelling layer along the entrance platform F7954 that lays on top of another packing of B131 that is layer 23058, that lays on top of initial construction/levelling layer of B131 - unit 23110. It should be noted that this layer is significantly thicker along the eastern wall F7712. Initially layer 23058 looked somewhat similar to the midden deposits found in SP610 but it turned out that this layer is a packing layer (one would expect to find some form of platform restriction under earliest make-up and plaster layers) composed of redeposited midden material that was mixed with light yellow clay packing. All packing and levelling layers were initially raised along the eastern wall F7712, probably in anticipation or even prevention of the sinking of that wall due to looseness of layers on which it was built. Not only is layer 23110 from construction phase but it also predates the walls (which was obvious once F7712 was removed) and that would make layers 23048 and 23058 additional packing layers providing support for the ever problematic eastern wall of B131 BEFORE the first floors were plastered . 

Consistency: strong/compact 

Colour: light grey mixed with light yellow 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: flecks and small fragments of charcoal, small fragments of mudbricks 

Post-depositional Features: burning 

Basal Boundary: distinctive, uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23058 below: (Click to view the record) 23024 

Dry sieve volume: 104 

Total Deposit Volume: 128 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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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