Unit 17561

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: plaster on platform 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform)

 

Description: Fire damaged plaster surface on NE platform, the surface of this heavly decorated platform is powdery almost ash like. There is some slumping at the center of the platform, possibly as a result of a burial below. 

 

Discussion: The layer that was removed increased in thickness in the eastern part, from 1 cm to between 2-3 cm. Because of the conservation work on the pedestals, there will be some contamination in the flotation sample. When tracing the red plaster on the platform and pedestals, it was clear that it originally had several layers, about 2 cm thick total. When tracing the paint on the S part of the NE wall, and trying to connect it to the floor, it turned out that the paint had continued about . 

 

Recognition: plaster on platform(burnt), color, texture 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel and leaf trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: mid brown, brown, red paint 

Texture: sandy clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: occ. Charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows and insect holes 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19026 below: (Click to view the record) 19016, 19006 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 20 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 77

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 336

Features:: (Click to view the record) 6051 (platform)

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2009 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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