Unit 17571

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

 

Area: North 

 

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  Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: plaster on platform 

 

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

 

Description: Burnt plaster surface over eastern central platform. 

 

Discussion: 3 layers removed, a thicker light grey brown reduced clay layer, a more pale grey layer, and a light bown layer. Slight amount of organic plant inclusions and occasional charcoal. Removed layers on the wall that correspnded to the layers removed from the floor, as well as an additional 2 cm from wall that would have been extended out on top of floor plaster, due to degredation of exposure over the last 2 years (see sketch plan). 

 

Recognition: Plaster layers *burnt) on feature 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, leaf trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: soft/friable 

Colour: mid-grey brown with slightly greyer layer below, and mid-red brown layer below that on the floor level on the wall dark grey burnt plaster with multiple occasional red painted layers 

Texture: marl-clay floor surface 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: plant/organic remains in make up layer, some flecks of charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: multiple animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: sharply onto red makeup layer 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19007 below: (Click to view the record) 16490 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 30 

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 

Related Photos: 6 (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) 6052 (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 2010 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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