Unit 12138

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor and make-up 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: Layers include mud brick make up and 2-3 layers of surface on top. Probably extended across byzantine trench to the south. Was prob built up in the north against vertical plaster edge of 'platform' which was no longer present but which would have covered several layers of earlier floor. Could be contemporary w/ floor of corresponding height on other side of building, however, as it was built up several cm in 1 layer of make-up. Surface was nearly identical to that directly beneath it (a 'dirty floor'). Is nearly perfectly flat. Triangular bit in SW corner may be continuous w/ ledge visible on W wall. Is truncated by pit 12136/12137 (not excavated) to the west and pit surrounding plaster piller (feat: 2132 ) and hence prob predates them.

Rough volume calculated. AKT 25 Jul 2009 

Recognition: layers clearly identifiable in profile, easily lifts off lower layer 

Definition: cut on almost every side except north, where it abuts vertical plaster, which undercuts it a bit. 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: mid orangey brown (mud brick color) 

Texture: clay/sandy 

Bedding: layered: thick layer of mud brick, 2-3 thin layers of plastery/brownish surface 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: clear: similar make-up/floor layer, flat. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:end of seasonbelow: (Click to view the record) 12137 equal to: (Click to view the record) 16331 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 342 

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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