Unit 8559

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor # 15 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This unit comprises last floor in the kitchen (#15) with somewhere left remains of floor # 14, because it was impossible to divide the two. Under layer of gray and black floor # 15, with plenty of salts, gypsum, ash, middeny stuff, there was a thin layer of orange red packing right abovethe miden, which was only partly preserved. In the northwest part of the kitchen, white plaster there were ramins of the white plaster stretching from central area (F. 606) of the house into kitchen (last floor in F. 606) below the floor is a midden. 

Recognition: color, consistency texture 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: extremely dry 

Consistency: loose to friable 

Colour: 10YR 8/5, 10YR 7/1, 5YR 5/6 

Texture: heavily damaged floor made of silty clay, with reddish packing 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: salt, gypsum, middeny stuff, ash, charcola, sand 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes 

Basal Boundary: midden 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8544 equal to: (Click to view the record) 8568 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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