Unit 20055

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster floor on a platform 

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

Description: One of the plaster levels of the south east corner platform (F. 3437). To the west there are remnants of a ladder base. Has been burned badly and contains inclusions of charcoal. 

Discussion: The layers are compound and the boundaries of the unit are clear and therefore the unit can be recognized as a separate unit. The charcoal and the presence of a ladder base suggest this platform is the ladder platform, and the unit is one of many plastering/ flooring events. In excavation, because the layers are so thin and degraded, we removed approximately 4 layers: 2 plaster layers and 2 makeup layers in order to get to the next distinct flooring event. The Northern end of the platform is very gray in color, while the southern end is a little more orangey, suggesting that the southern end may have burned at a higher temperature. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Gray 

Texture: Silty Clay 

Bedding: Compound 

Inclusions: Charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: truncation, burning 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20056 below: (Click to view the record) 20044 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

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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