Unit 21275

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster floor on platform 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: multiple

Discussion: This light orange plaster floor is thick with thin make up layer. The plaster is extremely preserved with smooth surface belong the platform F3441. It represent the second earliest plastering (phase I) above the earliest grey plastering event U21276. This plaster floor is contemporary with the floor of main space U21257 as well as the dirty floor U21222 and oven F7433 with the plaster floor U21266, earliest hearth base F7431 in the southern activities area. It important to note that three pillars are contemporary with this features (level 2 phase I): the pillar F3428 against the eastern wall and on the same ax against the western wall was built pillar F3433, while a third pillar against the northern wall F3431 was constructed. The pillar F3429 against the eastern wall to the north was built in the earliest level of phase II. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: light orange/yellow 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal, plaster, small stons 

Post-depositional Features: trunction burials 

Basal Boundary: very sharp, constructional, distinct, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21276 below: (Click to view the record) 21274 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 28 

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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