Unit 8199

Category: layer    dug in 2001

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: packing 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: Firstly, on the surface, between two white plaster basin-like blocks a thick layer of packing was visible. We left balck stripes (seems like packing too) As a boundary of unit towards the east we came down to cracky and not very well made white floor (took that as sample 4), went through packing that was tighlty packed, but looks like deposited trifly, very solid, through still powdery white plaster ( base of unit) now goes both under 8224 to the south and 8254 to the north. Not sure about the function of this packing, what comes first to my mind is that dwellers, for some reason had to till the gap with not very esthetically nice material (floor wither heavily truncated, worn, but no proper clues for that assumption). Not yet convinced this is just a part of basin, more inclined to believe it had some other function/ reason for such a packing deposited very quickly in order to prevent something? Or some kid just practiced how to make a floor?

Photo numbers: 2001T444.01-22
2001T445. 22-28 

Recognition: white plaster, inner wall 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: firm, solid, friable to loose 

Colour: blackish, white, pinkish mottled 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal very scarece 

Post-depositional Features: none apparent 

Basal Boundary: white plaster, pinkish/ brown packing 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8108, 8165 equal to: (Click to view the record) 8242, 8224 

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  

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