Unit 20857

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

 

Area: South 

 

Interpretive Categories: Floor plaster 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: single; Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Discussion: Thi unit was clear as a very compact white layer. Its compaction is due to its use as a floor. It was applied by the people living here on top of grey makeup to serve as their new, clean floor. It is bounded to the west by the burial sequence of platform f. 3508, and is presumed to be the same as u. 20855, the white floor plaster on the W. half of this space (though this will need to be verified in post-ex. Osman removed this unit by trowel and brush. 

 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: White 

Texture: Plaster 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: None 

Post-depositional Features: Cracking, trampling, animal burrows, cuts for burial sequence 

Basal Boundary: Grey makeup 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20862 below: (Click to view the record) 20854 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20855 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume:

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 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

96 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

370 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

3508 (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 2014 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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Phytolith Sample: No
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