Unit 20814
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: Plaster on platform
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted
Discussion: This layer, consisting of plaster, is partly covering the south side of platform F.3507, but continues up on the surface of the platform, in the corner which is cut by a post retrieval pit. The platform has deep cracks in that part and I would say it is at least partly because the platform has been exposed during many years of the excavation. At the same time the plaster seems to continue down deeper here, which may suggest it was put there partly to mend the platform and that the cracks were formed already during the use of the platform, where it was in contact with the post when it was still standing.
I stopped removing the layer at a level I felt was separated by 1.) a new make-up layer on top of the platform F.3507 and 2.) it was separated by the next layer on top of F.3508. However, it must be said that the stratigraphic relations to especially the units in platform F.3508 were difficult to discern, and that I rather have the feeling of constant replastering and perhaps make-ups on F.3507 and F.3508 respectively, overlaying each other again and again. U.20814, however, was pure plaster.
Consistency: Firm
Colour: White
Texture: Silt-clay
Bedding: Partly layered (thin layers visible on the south side of the NE platform F.3507) and partly massive (in relation to the surface of the platform cracks in this and a post retrieval pit east of u.20814).
Inclusions: -
Post-depositional Features: Severe cracks, deep in the platform. Probably due to (or worsened by) having been exposed for many years during excavation
Basal Boundary: Partly obscure towards underlaying plasters, but in the north part it was clearly separable to the make up layer underneath.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 2
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
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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 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
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