Unit 12285

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: single; Basal Spit: unpainted

Dimensions: 4.40 x 3.40 x 0,17 

Discussion: İt is a large floor deposit, posssibly covering an entire ground surface of Building 61.
The deposit was homogenous of massive bedding, coposed of greyish silty sand. Due to lowering of the denudation base to the east from the excavated floor, its surface has been broken off in a couple of instances, along the N-S alignment. The most serious brake occured c. 1.10 m from the eastern edge of the Buiding. Coordinates of this brake are as follows as seen from the south to north:
1-976.82\991.29\1017.17
2-976.84\991.68\1017.21
3-976.87\992.08\1017.21
Except for this part, where deposits underneath led to breaking off its surface and made the stratigraphic sequence more complicated, the unit was easily distinguishable both in plan and section due to its colour and statigraphic position between two make up layers.
The mass of the deposit was very clear as only several litlle fragments of animal bones were recorded on its. The floor is irregular in shape being truncated by many later cuts (11740, 11742, 11750,11775,11589,13000). A small fragment of the floor plaster was recorded in its southern part, against the edge of a partition wall recorded as unit 13002.
The unit is the first in the oldest sequence of floor levels of Building 61 and it is set on a brownish make up layer (12286).
Above there was another floor, composed of brownish silty sand make up but it preserved only partly in the southern section of the building, along with white pebbled make up layer (12295) and the floor deposit itself(12294).
Three archive as well as three flotation samples were taken considering the size of the deposit: it may carry traces of distinct activities in its varioıs sections. No internal structures were found on the floors surfacce, therefore the places of the samples collection were chosen arbitarly.
As the floor surface was sloping from the west to the east, a set of measurements was taken to capture stepness of this slope.
This is described by three lines of measurements taken from the north to south in three sections of the floor; eastern, central,western. The measurements are following:
1 the most eastern section:
1017.18, 1017.09, 1017.00
2 the central section:
1017.23, 1017.22, 1017.17
3 the eastern section:
1017.36, 1017.37, 1017.36 

Recognition: colour, stratigraphic position 

Definition: a large floor deposit in Buiding 61 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cold, wet, windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: greyish 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: animal bones 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: sharp, uneven, distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12286 below: (Click to view the record) 12284 

Dry sieve volume: 52 

Total Deposit Volume: 127 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9

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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