Unit 3893

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: length 55 x 35 cm; width-depth = 0.3 mm 

Discussion: Eighth layer of floor lenses on platform F239. Labelled layer 14 on plan 98-639.

This layer was discontinuous, and had salt patches and the plaster layer below (3894) showed through this unit in the SE corner. 

Recognition: Floor of platform. Colour/texture changes. 

Definition: Defined by limit of excavation. 

Execution: Leaf trowel and patience. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: compact but friable 

Colour: 7.5 YR 4/2 

Texture: clayey, ashy, plastic 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole in SE corner 

Basal Boundary: discontinous/surfaces cracked slightly, pitted 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3894 below: (Click to view the record) 3892 

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 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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