Unit 3891
Category: layer dug in 1998
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: floor,trample
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)
Dimensions: depth 0.6 cm approx; 55 cm length; 35 cm width
Discussion: Sixth layer of floors in platform F239.
Plaster layer, has area of salts towards SE limit of excavation, also quite cracked in places. Also dark, very fine layers under the plaster, too thin to excavate separately. Salts are labelled 6 on 98-639 (plan); plaster layer = 7 on 98-639; dark layer = 8 on same plan.
The plaster contained at least 6 different lenses, some were darker than others.
Recognition: Floor of platform. Colour/texture changes.
Definition: Defined by limit of excavation.
Execution: Leaf trowel and patience.
Condition: Dry.
Consistency: compact but friable when crushed
Colour: plaster 7.5 YR 8/1 white; dark layer 7.5 YR 4/2 brown
Texture: ashy clay
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: some charcoal fragments 1 mm 1%
Post-depositional Features: animal hole in SE corner
Basal Boundary: diffuse/contrast is faint/smooth surfaces/but cracked in places
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
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
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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