Unit 19160

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Description: laminated layers also contain thin lenses of light orange sandy clay make-up material & mid gray clay/silt occupation layers 

Discussion: Laminated floor deposit which consists of 2-3 plaster floors interspersed with thin make-up & occupation layers. Overlies & butts up against further floors 19156 which lie over surrounding kerb/edge of platform. It seems likely that 19160 represents replastering soon after this kerb was built where the central (presumably softer) deposits subsided slightly and so only the central section was replastered. 19160 was initially overdug and was removed with 19156 at northern end as well as across entire central area. Priority flotation sample was taken from the southern end around f.7421 (a shallow pit) & was taken to see if this pit might be related to flint or obsidian working.

Priority feedback: very low leveIs of all artifacts-including obsidian so does not seem to be file for obsidian/ flint working unless it was kept very clean. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Light whitish grey 

Texture: slightly clayey lime plaster 

Bedding: Laminated 

Inclusions: occasional ash, phytolith flecks 

Post-depositional Features: Truncated by several burials-f. 7404, f.7419 & f.7422 

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19156 below: (Click to view the record) 19162 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 32 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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