Unit 20061

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Makeup layer to plaster floors 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: Layer is a friable clay make up to plaster floor layers unit 20059. It is patchy like the plaster surfaces especially in the center of the layer from erosion or possibly digging out in antiquity. 

Discussion: This unit was recognized as a separate during the removal of the third and last plaster floor level in the previous oven location. It represents a distinctive depature from the pattern of thin plaster floors and make up layers, exhibited by u 20053, 20058, and 20059. It appears to be thicker and more orangey in color, like the dirty floors/makeup bordering this area to the N. This makeup layer appears to also lip up onto platform F.3437, like the later plaster floors. The layer appears to disintigrate into a kind of silty rubble by the threshold and does not seem like it will articulate with a makeup below the new plaster directly to the N of the threshold. This layer lips up onto wall F. 5038 like the previous plaster floors suggesting great care and attention was taken to prepare this space, which also seemed to remain relatively clean (a phase without an oven)? 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Grayish organge 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: Plaster/marl 

Post-depositional Features: Truncations 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20065 below: (Click to view the record) 20059 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 10 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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:

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

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