Unit 18639

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Central Floor Plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: length = 2.47 Width = 1.36 m , Thickenss = 0.04 - 0.05m 

Discussion: Sequence of mid-light grey floors and makeup layers, uneven as originally exposed by Mellaart but two to three layers surviving in most places. 

Recognition: Floor Plaster 

Definition: clear 

Execution: Leaf Trowel 

Condition: Hot 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: light grey to mid orange 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layers of grey surface and make up layers 

Inclusions: occ. Bone, charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, area of floor cracked from drying of archaeological deposits 

Basal Boundary: clear, distinct, sloping 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18646 below: (Click to view the record) 19244 

Dry sieve volume: 70 

Total Deposit Volume: 96 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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