Unit 18477

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: South 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: floors on platform 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 1.30m x 0.94m x 1.5 cm to 3 cm 

 

Discussion: FLOORS ON PLATFORM AND SOUTH WALL. THE WHITE WALL FLOORS ARE HEAVILY BURNT AND THE MAKE UP LAYERS FIRED MID REDDISH BROWN. THE FLOORS LIP UP AGAINST.THE EXCAVATED PILLAR AND CONTINUE UP THE WALL 15CM.AT THE MAX THE DEPOSIT RANGES FROM 1.5CM TO 3 CM THICK AGAINST THE WALL - AT LEAST TWO FLOORS AND RESPECTIVE MAKE UP LAYERS. THE FLOORS WERE TRUNCATED BY (18478) A REPAIR CUT BACK,MOST LIMIT RELATED TO THE CONTINUIOUS PRESENCE OF A SMALL HEARTH OR OVEN IN ON THE PLATFORM. 

 

Recognition: layered floors on platform 

Definition: defined by feature + south wall 

Execution: trowel +leaf trowel excavated 

Condition: warm 

Consistency: solid-hard fired against south wall 

Colour: light reddish brown to black 

Texture: slightly sandy-clay silty 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions:

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows + (18478) repair 

Basal Boundary: clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18484 below: (Click to view the record) 18473 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

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 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

76 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

137 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

3411 (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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