Unit 20628

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Plastered platform 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Discussion: Plastered platform/bench lying on top of eroded plaster U.20914. The SE end of it was excavated in 2012 (platform lip). The SW and SC parts of the platform are missing due to the post retrieval cut (U.20697).
By removing this layer of plaster we came into the make-up underneath and realised that the platform went through various phases of construction/re-modelling. The northern part of the platform seems to have been a later addition to the original structure, 20-30cm shorter in an E-W axis than previously inferred when the plaster was covering the whole of it. The make-up of this northern part is darker, sandier and much coarser than the fine greyish make-up of the rest of the platform. The eastern lip of the platform appears to be an even later addition to structure. The southern part of this lip was excavated in 2012.
It is becoming very dificult to link this platform feature with the floors left by the BACH team in the eastern half of Sp.87. 

 

Consistency: Soft 

Colour: White 

Texture: Clayish silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: rocks 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation (burrows) 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20944, 20948, 20940 below: (Click to view the record) 20627 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

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 

Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7114 (platform)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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