Unit 19007

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: surface/floor 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Removed 3 sets of makeup layer. Floor layer sets alternating between grey floor layers and red clay makeup layers, with charcoal and plant inclusions.Total width removed was 2-4 cm, the east end of the platform having thicker makeup layers. These layer sets come down on top of suspected human burial cut. There may be possible contamination due to animal burrowing. 

Recognition: colour/textyre 

Definition: sharp, seals a burial cut 

Execution: trowel, leaf trowel 

Condition: windy, hot humid 

Consistency: friable-firm 

Colour: grey greasy flooring and burnt oxodized red make-up layers 

Texture: flooring. Marl clay. Fairly pure 

Bedding: make-up floor with fiborous plant inclusions 

Inclusions: layered ungulating and uneven 

Post-depositional Features: multiple animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: comes down onto floor layers and a hard clay fill to a curial cut 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19008 below: (Click to view the record) 17571 

Dry sieve volume: 45 

Total Deposit Volume: 67 

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 

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

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