Unit 21989

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: This layer is a plaster floor on the highest platform and it could be interpreted as the first floor where the platform was building. It was made by two levels of plaster and make up, and we removed a first thick level of plaster and make up (3 cm) and a second level more consistent made by a tiıck plaster and a make up and its thickness was from 1 to 7 cm.
In the eastern corner it was frequent to find small painted pieces of plaster and just red traces on the floor.
The unit was excavated by trowel and leaf trowel. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: white and dark grey 

Texture: clay silty 

Bedding: layered compound, plaster + make up (plaster 1 cm, make up 2 cm), second level plaster +makeup (plaster 1 cm, make up from 1 to 7 cm) 

Inclusions: tiny inclusions of charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: \ 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21990 below: (Click to view the record) 21988 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 135 

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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