Unit 21729

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Eroded hearth packing 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: re-used superstructure; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Unit is a very mixy eroded layer of sand and rubble under hearth superstructure U. 21728 and was identified as a separate unit due to the looseness of the deposit and the change in soil composition. The layer may have been constructed as packing for the superstructure above it and in order to raise the hearth level to the level of the sunken floor. This layer is underneath U. 21728 superstructure and respects U. 21731, a superstructure event that seems to be of the same material as U. 21728 yet deposited after U 21729 was added as packing. As there appear to be some larger plaster inclusions within this layer it may be that plaster floors or molded edges existed in this area at this level and then were dug out or eroded away as the hearth superstructure continued to be built up. 

Consistency: Loose 

Colour: Dark brown 

Texture: sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: plaster 

Post-depositional Features: erosion 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21731, 21733 below: (Click to view the record) 21728 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 1 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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