Unit 20634
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Red painted plaster layer + makeup
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: layered (wall plaster); Basal Spit: painted
Discussion: This layer was highly inconsistent due to burning at the southwest corner. Because of this, the color/consistency of the layer varied throughout the platform. Towards the northeast corner, the layer was quite compact. Here, the red painted plaster layer was removed along with two distinct levels of makeup. The first was a very homogenous grey silty clay. This part was rather firm as well and functioned as a kind of preparation layer for the plaster on top. The second level of makeup was a more traditional "makeup" layer; it is a rather loose, yellowish brown layer with some inclusions. The two levels of makeup were indistinguishable from the red plaster layer in the area of the platform that was burned. This is why all three layers were removed as one unit, rather than individual layers.
This unit was very distinct because it comprised of a homogenous red plaster layer. The majority of the SW corner of this layer had been burned during the closing of Building 52. Because of this, this corner is poorly preserved and very friable. The red paint on the layer slowly eroded after initial exposure. This layer is the second definable layer in a sequence of many on the northeast platform (F 3695) of Building 52. At some point, it was constructed. After this, layer u.20615 (arbitrary, unclear how many were above/how many plaster levels it consisted of due to burning and long term exposure since the 2005 field season) was constructed. At some point, a burial cut (u.20648) was made and skeleton (sk.20655) and fill (u.20654) were deposited.
Consistency: SW: Friable, NE: Firm
Colour: SW: dark grey, NE: red painted plaster layer, plaster = light yellowish gray, makeup= grey layer and yellowish brown layer
Texture: Plaster: clayey, Makeup: silty clay
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: 10% small rock inclusions
Post-depositional Features: Burning in SW corner of platform
Basal Boundary: Constructional
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 30
Total Deposit Volume: 60
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
| Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window) | |
Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| |
Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| |
Features:: (Click to view the record)
|
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 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
main sponsors
secondary sponsors
