Unit 20944

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Make-up/infill of platform 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Discussion: Make-up/infill of platform F.7114. This unit is a compound of patches of different sediment types: red clay (up to 50% of the unit), grey mortar-like material (10% of unit), burnt sediment (in situ, found in the center of the platform -low temperature burning, no ashes formed, 10% of unit), and white plaster (30% of unit). The thick patches of plaster (up to 10cm depth) seem to be repairement episodes of the platform, as they concentrate in the edges of it and present an irregular perimeter in plan.
With the exception of the plaster the rest of the materials appear to merge into each other and they should be interpreted as one deposional event. 

 

Consistency: Soft to firm 

Colour: Whitish pale brown (plaster) to reddish brown (clay) to grey (mortar/make-up) 

Texture: Clay to silty clay loam 

Bedding: Compound layered, large patches of different materials 

Inclusions: Rocks (1-5% abundance), burnt sediment (5-10%) 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, abrupt 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20952 below: (Click to view the record) 20628 

 

Dry sieve volume: 10 

Total Deposit Volume: 40 

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: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7114 (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 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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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