Unit 8127

Category: layer    dug in 2001

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 2.08X.28 M 

Discussion: The threshold/step is layered, as expected. It was a step , then, all the time but only during one phase (or subphase). White layers count four so far and they all go under the platform, at least in this eastern part of platform F. 169. Mira says we should find something that will help us track layers if they were following the slope of the platform.
Hit the white/greyish plastery layer , thin and moisty. Its underneath reddish brown packing and a thin black layer (dirty, occupation?). Will leave a block for Wendy.

***** from the edge of platform F. 169 westwards
So it seems that the part of our step that corresponds with the extent of the platform is just floor layers above each other. The true step, I think, is what goes from the edge of platform F. 17 to the edge of platform F. 169, thus serving as a clean-dirty floor divider (threshold). The step proper is not layered and consists of nice packing layer, plastered on top.
Actually it seems like underneath white plaster (which is thin) there's this reddish packing, but that, on the other hand, sits on top of brownish packing that is a bit more sandy. Both deposits are approximately 1.5 cm thick.
Patches of that same light greyish/white moist thin layer of plaster sitting on sandy (lower) clayey packing of our step. These traces of discontinuous floor only visible in the northern part of step. The rest is sandy, silty clay,nicely placed there. Now we can see from the micromorphology sample that there is a very thin reddish layer in between sandy grayish clayey packing (below that thicker reddish layer mentioned above). Right above that blacker layer is brown/yellowish scrapy, think layer of something. And now the white thin layer of plaster is not discontinuous anymore, but traceable, hopefully all the way to the edge of F. 170. The blackish layer is still there, sitting on white. All this still in the northern part though.
Those were patches (white/grayish and blackish thin layers suggesting some kind of activity here.
Under the base of the step (which is now part of the central floor of sp. 86) is clean, solid white plaster. 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: defined by platforms F. 169 and F. 170 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: white to grayish white and reddish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive to compound layered 

Inclusions: occasional charcoalon light gray/white plaster bit 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: smooth 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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  

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