Unit 19645

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floor Surface 

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

Dimensions: 2.5 m EW x 3.8 m NS 

Discussion: Unit is a compact/firm and thick layer of light grey silty clay located in between floor (plaster floor) layers in building 97. Layer is truncated by two cuts to the north containing burials and extends to the S. wall of the building. Unit also extends past the burial truncations to the Nmost Mellaart truncations and to where the N. face of the wall is still intact. The layer contains about 4-6 small, thin micro white plaster floor layers that represent a brief history of surface occupation levels of the bldg. These layers were excavated as part of (19645). The layer also extends to the Eastern platforms of the bldg. and appears to be lapping up against both the eastern and western platform/floor levels. Due to the thickness and fairly homogenous composition of this layer (a few mixing charcoal/ash inclusions) this laeyr could represent a packing event deposited as foundation for floor layers in the bldg. Unit contains a handful of faunal remains and a stone. 

Recognition: Plaster surface below platform additions 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: very light grey 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compund thin makeups and plaster layers 

Inclusions: bone, stone, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: truncation by Mellaart, [19634], [18668] 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19646, 19649 below: (Click to view the record) 19634, 19637, 19636 

Dry sieve volume: 172.5 

Total Deposit Volume: 193 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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