Unit 20094
Category: Layer dug in 2014
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: Plaster cap over possible burial cut
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted
Description: Layer is a thin deposit of plaster over a possible burial cut in the NE corner of platform F.3441.
Discussion: Layer was identified after U. 18989, plaster floor layer on F. 3441, was removed and an outline of a cut and fill were identified under a plaster cap-like layer that did not extend past the cut outline. It's possible this layer was meant to cover the area around the cut and patch it up/prepare it for the replastering of another floor. Also it is possible that this layer served a less functional purpose in marking or memorializing the cut as the location of a burial. In this area of B. 80 there appears to be a pattern of plaster caps over child/infant burials (F. 7404, 7405, 7406) so this plaster cap could have been a practice at some point in the house.
Consistency: Friable
Colour: Grayish white
Texture: Silty clay
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: None
Post-depositional Features: None
Basal Boundary: Clear
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 5
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
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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 2014 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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