Unit 20948

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: NE corner of platform, repairement event 

 

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

 

Discussion: NE corner of platform F.7114 under plaster layer U.20628. The unit consisted of a silty clay "core", occupying the center of it, and a ridge of white plaster (1-5cm thickness) around its whole perimeter. After excavating this unit we uncovered a thick ridge of plaster under it in the western side, sloping towards the east, and a coarse infill similar to the one found under U.20940.
We believe that, after the plastered platform was constructed, the inhabitants of this space made a cut in its NE corner and filled this cut with the brown silty clay U.20948. This might be the reason why the connection between the platform and the lip in this area is lost. This unit could represent an episode of repairement of the platform. 

 

Consistency: Soft 

Colour: White (plaster) to pale brown (core/infill) 

Texture: Clay (plaster) to silty clay (core/infill) 

Bedding: Compound layered 

Inclusions: Bone (1-5% abundance), rocks (1-5%), groundstones (5-10%) 

Post-depositional Features: None seen 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20996 below: (Click to view the record) 20628 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 4 

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: 2 (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: Yes Count of records:: 1

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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