Unit 23436

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Floor packing 

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

Description: U23436 represents the topmost layer identified on platform F7638 in exc.season-2017, and the layer directly above the addition - extension of Platform F7637 towards the East and the SE, in the corner between Walls F2012 and F2013, (i.e. U23444). The eastern edge of this extension is adjacent to the western edge of "Step-Basin" F7642. 

Discussion: This is the top-most layer of Platform F7637 in exc.season-2017. It is therefore the same as unexcavated unit U31416 of season 2015. This unit was excavated in the E and SE by VK and in the W and SW, by MZB.
In the East and SE, this unit was a packing layer, evidently applied in order to raise the level of the area East of Platfrom F7637 up to the level of this platform. It was sandy and mudbricky in the North; more plastery in the south with inclusions of pieces of mortar and chunks of plaster as infills here and there. (04.07.2017: VK) 

Consistency: Friable in the North; compact in the South 

Colour: Mixed: white and yellow 

Texture: Sand 

Bedding: Layered in the North; unoriented in the South 

Inclusions: 25% small pieces of plaster; 20% small pieces of mudbrick; 5% charcoal; other aggregates 

Post-depositional Features: Compaction by structures above 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, very sharp, distinct, irregular at places and level at others, uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23444, 23442 below:none equal to: (Click to view the record) 31416 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 18 

Number of Samples 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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