Unit 20844

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Compound floor layers of plaster and makeup 

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

Discussion: This compound layer is actually mainly defined by the underlying stratigraphy. Previous excavation has stopped arbitrarily at various stratigraphic levels over the western floor. What I have done now is to take off patches of layer down to a common stratigraphic level (which is a thin plaster on thick makeup, followed by thick plaster in the whole, it seems, western part of the building).

Above F. 7013 was only quite thick makeup, the lowest part of u. 20844, so the stratigraphic connection is clear. 

Consistency: Firm to friable 

Colour: White/light beige and medium brown 

Texture: Silt 

Bedding: Compound 

Inclusions: Charcoal flecks < 1 % 

Post-depositional Features: Worn more on certain surfaces. Very deep and severe cracks over the whole surface. Layers crumbling. 

Basal Boundary: In some parts of the surface the basal boundary is clear towards underlying plaster and features (i.e. F. 7013), but in many places it is more difficult to discern. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 20806 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20843 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 15 

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 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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