Unit 18992

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Make up layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: floor (packing only); Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: This unit was found underlying the plaster unit (18991) and distinguishable by its contrasting orange brown colour. It is likely this makeup layer was applied shortly before a plastering event. The make-up layer appears to have been used to remodel the shape of the platform (F.3442), possibly as a means of reducing the quantity of plaster required. It was observed that the thickness of this unit was highly variable (2-5cm) and it was especially thick towards the southern edge of the platform where it had been used to raise the height of the platform significantly (3cm). Also along the southern edge of the platform this unit had been used to ‘fill in’ an unusual depression (5cm) in the underlying plaster floor. It was speculated that this depression may have been created by someone accidentally stepping on the platform edge whilst it was still wet. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Orange brown 

Texture: Silty brown 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal (>1%) 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrows / Melaart truncation 

Basal Boundary: Sharp constructional 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18993, 20030 below: (Click to view the record) 18991 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 23 

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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