Unit 30022

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Clayish core of burial platform 

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

Discussion: Core of the platform composed of light orange brown clay/silty clay extending from the West side of the feature to the burial cut. Massive structure, appears to be continued from the ridge to th edge of the cut as a single entity. This means that the elevated perimeter of the platform was not a later addition but as a part of the original design. In the NE corner of the platform there is also clay core, but in this case it is sitting on top of an earlier floor, as seen in the burial cut, so it probably represents an earlier depositional event. The core excavated lies on top of a grey floor, ended at parts (especially towards the burial cut) below which is a coarse heterogenous levelling unit, increasing in depth towards the E, was deposited. 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Light orange brown 

Texture: Clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Grey and white plaster fragments 

Post-depositional Features: Minor bioturbation disturbances, very minor gypsum reprecipitation 

Basal Boundary: Sharp, distinct, smooth, constructional 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30026 below: (Click to view the record) 30140 

Dry sieve volume: 7 

Total Deposit Volume: 38 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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