Unit 5208

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster on wall 

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

Dimensions: c5m x 1.2 x 5-13mm 

Discussion: Rather unusual thick yellowish sticky plaster on E face of wall 554; in places on the N part of the wall this was overlain by a thinner application of white plaster 

Recognition: sticky yellowish plaster behind building infill on E face of wall F.554 

Definition: sticky yellowish plaster behind building infill on E face of wall F.554 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dried out except on lower courses 

Consistency: generally firm 

Colour: pale yellowish brown (with more orange patches - c5% up to 10mm) 

Texture: (silty) clay loam 

Bedding: massive - in some places whiter plaster overlays orange plaster 

Inclusions: very occasional (<1%) charcoal flecks, very occasional small rounded white pebbles and bone fragments 

Post-depositional Features: absent on some parts of the wall (see section 661) 

Basal Boundary: sharp, wavy (filling irregularities in wall face). 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5205, 5206, 5207 below: (Click to view the record) 4325 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 5 

Total Deposit Volume: 34 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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