Unit 21722

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: sunken floor (SE of sp.135) 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: This unit consisted of highly eroded make-up layer called a sunken floor because its lower elevation in the centre than on the edges and distinctly raised edges as well (in some parts sitting on the top of hearth superstructure U.21728).
This unit was sealed by brown and mixed packed dirty floor layer (U.20069). Unit 21722 was determined as a compound layer after revealing mixed make-up layer underneath the remnant of white plaster at the very top of this unit.
These white plaster remnants are partially lapping up onto the superstructure layer of the new hearth feature (F.7402).
This plaster sunken/basin floor layer may have been contemporaneous with the plaster molding on the hearth.

Plaster samples (S3-S19) were taken at 0.20m x 0.20m. The x,y coordinates for the corners of this more or less N-S grid are provided below:
SW: 932.91, 958.91
SE: 933.68, 958.61
NE: 933.61, 960.02
NW: 934.28, 959.49
Elevation information can be obtained from post-excavation 3D model of B.80 (2014). 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: white, grey 

Texture: silty - clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: calcium spots 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: constructional, abrupt, smooth form & surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21728 below: (Click to view the record) 20099, 20069, 21725, 21724 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 20

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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