Unit 21780

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: make up and plaster of sunken floor next to hearth 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: This unit is a mix of make-up and plaster sitting on top of a grey layer of heavily burnt dirty floor. The surface contains a lot of many specks mainly in the western portion of the floor (next to the hearth). The soil is very patchy so it was not very easy to follow the grey floor that was supposed to be excavated by leaf trowel. The main reason for excavation of dirty area connects to the hearth on the west and with the features to the south, so we may move forward to the investigation of the earlier strata in the oven area and the platforms to the east. The grey dirty floor exposed after excavation lapped on the southern slopey edge of the unit but not on the eastern edge.

Note: It was decided to treat this lump of make up and plaster in a single unit, because the layers were very fine and the sediment very patchy. About 6 layers of white plaster grey make-up lenses and brown make up were excavated. Scattered fragments of obsidian were observed. 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: very patchy: brown, grey, light grey, white 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: specks of marl, lens of plaster and make-up 

Post-depositional Features: heavily burnt near the hearth 

Basal Boundary: gradual, even, anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21790 below: (Click to view the record) 21766 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 13 

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:

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

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