Unit 18978

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster floor bench 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: plaster

Description: (2014) This unit is a soft white, light grey layer of plaster on the pre-excavated bench. 

Discussion: Upper bench plaster unexcavted 2010.
Plastering event on bench F. 3439, not continious anywhere else as of now.
Not excavated in 2013.
(2014) Unit 18978 is a bench. The new unit was to take the bench down to the next plaster layer, to reach a makeup or packing layer underneath. The bench became free when unit 20067 (plaster layer on the main platform) was excavated and was found to be separate to the bench. The platform behind the bench (F.3441), however, is thought to be the same as the bench. However there is nothing connecting these two plaster layers. It was found that the bech is a compact plaster fill, other than a small layer of packing/dirty floor that is situated at the bottom of the bench. Therefore it has been decided to excavate from the platform behind (F.3441) and see if there is any lipping of this plaster onto the bench. 

Consistency: Soft 

Colour: white, light gray 

Texture: fine 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: constructional 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20069 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

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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