Unit 31608

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: wall plaster 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: plaster; Deposition: layered (wall plaster); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Wall plastered preserved only on the bottom part of the F8011 wall, since it was exposed and then backfield in the 1960s, very friable, because of that it was decide to remove it all as one unit.

The wall was partially excavated in the previous year, and at that time they thought that it had removed the entire wall. This year we confirmed that the wall actually continued further down at the level exposed last year (31614), at which point it had been excavated. So this season we exposed the rest of the wall F8011. The plaster was well preserved in the whole wall, but mostly in the bottom, also a bin (F7808) was abutting this plaster. We didn't excavate the plaster and we expose it only until the room floor level. The plaster is white and compact and not very thick around 0.03 m (30.05.2016-- CB) 

Consistency: friable, compact at the bottom 

Colour: at least 2 layers of greyish white wall plaster on a layer of grey make-up 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered (2 layers of laminated plaster 5 mm thick on one layer of 5mm make-up) 

Inclusions: small charcoal and mineral flecks in the make-up 

Post-depositional Features: animalburrows, wheathering 

Basal Boundary: sharp anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31609 below: (Click to view the record) 31603 equal to: (Click to view the record) 31605 

Total Deposit Volume: 10 

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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