Unit 20855

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floor plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: single; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: This unit represents the clean white floor plaster under makeup u. 20852, though it was cut into for burial f. 7015. It is quite well preserved, though differentially thick (thickest where it meets the two eastern platforms and thinning out to the west). In some places, there was no makeup preserved underneath and we came down directly upon clean (earlier) floor plaster. As with the other layers of floor in this space, u. 20855 was extremely clean and no finds were recovered (though some small fragments of bone were noted in the flotation sample). It is assumed to be the same unit as u. 20857 (on the eastern half of platform f. 3508) but this will need to be verified in post-ex, since the units are separated in space and the exact sequence of floor laminations is difficult to track. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: White 

Texture: Plaster 

Bedding: Massive, in varying thickness 

Inclusions: Small bit of bone, shell 

Post-depositional Features: Cracking, animal burrows, cutting of pits and burials 

Basal Boundary: Grey makeup, though patchy and thin 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20861 below: (Click to view the record) 20860 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20857 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 12 

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 

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

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