Unit 12978

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Truncated floors 

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

Discussion: Truncated floors of building 60 - lapping against platform F.2214 truncated to the east by hearth [12966] -relationship with the floors in the SE room lost so removed as a block.

A minimum of five floors visible but very difficult to distinguish as the area was heavily burnt. 

Recognition: Heavly truncated floors 

Definition: poor 

Execution: Trowel excavated 

Condition: dry windy 

Consistency: Firm (compacted occupation layers and floors) 

Colour: Dirty grey and brown floors (burnt due to proximity to hearth) 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: good 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12977 below: (Click to view the record) 12966 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 4 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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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