Unit 20056

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. There are remnants of a ladder base to the W. Has been badly burned. 

Discussion: This new layer, like u.20055 above, had the removal of four layers: 2 plaster layers and 2 makeup layers and those layers were all very degraded. The north area of this layer has a very gray coloring, whilst the southern layer has an orange coloring. The northern layer also seems to have a distinct line of where the next layer begins, along the northern side of the platform. However this line decreases about half way possibly due to burning/melting rather than a lip. The plaster floor below this layer found after excavation appears to continue down the N face of the feature, extending underneath several layers of plaster lipping upward, from the additional platform F 7401 to the N. Therefore excavation must cease in the area. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: gray 

Texture: sandy clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: truncation, burning 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 20055 

Total Deposit Volume: 7 

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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