Unit 3509

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Floor/Platform 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 135cm x 120 cm 

Discussion: This layer was isolated beneath the bricky rubble fill 2281. It lays above the plastered surface, probably floors of some kind (platform rather than room floor). Deposit is distinctly homogeneous and regular, following the sloping of the plastered surface, sloping down towards the North. Deposit is not thick, being no more than 4cm above the plaster. Deposit is well-defined to the West and South by the respective walls; to the East, the edge seems less certain, but it seems to stop in a fairly straight line 120 cm off the West curtain wall. Meanwhile to the North, it slopes beneath the bricky rubble of 2281, and will be revealed in further excavation. As for now, this unit seems to be the deposit (occuapational?) directly connected with the plastered surface immediately below. Since its edge to the East is uncertain it seems to be that we are on the top layer of this platform.
The very South edge was not recognized at first and dug through. 

Recognition: Recognized by the color and because the material above the flat surface with plaster was more compact. 

Definition: Up to the wall in the South and West; to the East, defined by the edge of the platform 

Execution: Trowel and brush 

Condition: Dry to slightly moist 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/6 yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: Small specks of bricks, charcoal, plaster; not many artifacts 

Post-depositional Features: occasional specks of salts 

Basal Boundary: Anthropic regular plaster floor(?) surface beneath 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 2281 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

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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