Unit 1663

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floors + other 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Description: Floor remnants left by Mellaart, by E wall

(note on sheet: 're-do') 

Discussion: This is an arbitrary layer in so far as it was taken off in one, & also because we previously tried to take off Mellaart's remnant floors but they were complex than expected & Jessica had to give up. It consists really of the lowest clear floor which has surface (1640) plus anything below it which overlay a speckled deposit.
However, a good clean of the area has now shown an apparently fallen wall plaster or else steeply sloping floor 1 inch thick at a 40 degree angle down towards the E wall, & it is possible some of 1663 belongs to that. Also, at S end this is remains of a bench over a wall which accounts for its raised base - made of dense clay & plaster

(note SF: this is 1662 - re-do) Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry seive 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: warm, dry, bright, but clouds 

Consistency: moderately strong 

Colour:  

Texture: (silty) clay 

Bedding: layered; massive (plaster and underlay) 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:1662.2023.1635below: (Click to view the record) 1640 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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