Unit 23205

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floors 

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

Discussion: Layer exposed in the side room of building 161 after remove the floor U32641. We remove within the same unit the remains of the very earliest floor of this space and also the make-up. The remnants of the floor were very patchy and almost impossible to follow. Was a bit better preserved in the south east part of the room, with areas with white plaster, but mostly in the whole surface, the color was grey and orange, pretty mixed and very thin. The rest of the deposit belongs to the make-up.
The make-up is grey orange, very compact and mixed with remains of plaster, smashed bricks and clay. In the NW corner of the space we exposed two bones (S3-S4).
For the characteristics of this make up, we think that can be same layer exposed below the fire installations (as the U32654). 

Consistency: Very compact 

Colour: White greyish (floor) grey orange (make up) 

Texture: Mostly clay, but also silt and sand. The percentatge of clay is more than 60 % 

Bedding: Layered on the top, maybe two very thin patchy floors, and then the make up, that was quite thick 

Inclusions: Flecks of charcoal, small natural stones (plaster), smashed bricks, plaster (make up) 

Post-depositional Features: Salts 

Basal Boundary: Trampled and abrupt distinctness with smooth surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32653 below: (Click to view the record) 32641 

Dry sieve volume: 440 

Total Deposit Volume: 469 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX 

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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