Unit 6143

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Packing 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 1m x 1m 

Discussion: Removal of packing along lip/edge of platfrom 154/162. This packing is extremely dense and hard like concrete. Highly compressed, mixed debris with fragments of brick, plaster, and charcoal, all very fine, <0.5 cm across. This packing is finer and denser and harder than packing covering main floor of platform and is ??? ??? immediately above it and the lip. 

Recognition: After removal of floor 6138 

Definition: Within 1x1 m grid 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: ok 

Consistency: slightly sticky, moderately plastic 

Colour: 10YR 5/2 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charred 0.2-0.5 cm, <10% 

Post-depositional Features: roots 

Basal Boundary: sharp, distinct, onto ground packing over platform (6144 in this sq.) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6144 below: (Click to view the record) 6138 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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

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