Unit 21762

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster flooring event on lower ledge of platforms 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Unit is a layer of plaster floor located on a lower-ledge or step-like construction on the western edges of the main platorm (F. 3440), the bench (F. 3439), and the small platform-like construction directly north of the main platform (U. 21737). The unit is extremely thin and eroded and patchy plaster lapping up onto the western sloped edges of the bench and platform constructions, as well as on top of the orangey makeup/preparation layer (perhaps associated with the main platform) and down onto a small ledge/step that leads w. to the main floor area. The purpose of this platser layer seems to be to connect the platser floor layers of the main space features with the plaster flooring events of the main floor. It must have occurred after the main area plaster flooring events (U. 21763) and (U. 21759) as well as the main platform plaster layers of U. 21738. It also lapped onto the dirty floor layers of the sunken floor in the dirty space of the building (U. 21748). The ledge plaster may have been a cosmetic addition to the division between the platforms and the main floor in order to preserve and connect the look of plaster in the clean area of B. 80. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: whitish gray 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: erosion 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21763, 21738, 21748 below: (Click to view the record) 21758 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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