Unit 19845
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: collapsed plaster
Data Category Information: Location: building
Discussion: THIS UNIT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A BIG LUMP OF FIRM PLASTER THAT COLLAPSED ON THE NORTH PART OF THE NE PLATFORM DURING A RETRIEVAL ACTION OF UNCERTAIN NATURE THAT PRODUCED THE UNIT -19847. ATTACHED TO THE COLLAPSED PLASTER THERE WAS A LUMP OF MUDBRICKS COLLAPSED DURING THE SAME ACTION. THIS LAYER OF PLASTER CLEARLY DETACHED FROM THE WALL ABOVE THE UNIT 19864. SEVERAL CHUNKS OF THE RED PIGMENT WERE FOUND IN THIS LAYER, THEY ARE ORIGINATED FROM A COLLAPSE OF THE WALL PAINTING ON THE NORTH WALL. THE UNIT WAS EXCAVATED BY TROWEL.
Recognition: COMPOSITON AND COLOR
Definition: CLEAR
Condition: HOT AND DRY
Consistency: FIRM
Colour: WHITE
Texture: SILTY CLAY
Bedding: COMPOUND LAYERD;PLASTER 3 CM, MUDBRICK 3 CM, PLASTER 7 CM
Inclusions: 1 %CHARCOAL, 1 % PIGMENT FRAGMENTS
Post-depositional Features: -
Basal Boundary: VERY SHARP
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 12
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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