Unit 22642

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: white clay; Deposition: multiple; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: This is the last layer of plaster applied across nearly the entire building, though it lips up to the NW platform F. 7950, SW platform F. 7951, and bench on the E platform F. 7952. It was still patchy, although we were able for the most part to follow a consistent line where it was preserved along the walls. Patches in the center were interpreted as belonging to this same floor layer. On top of this layer in sp. 556 was a juvenile femur seemingly intentionally placed at the bottom of a glume wheat cluster (22656). Otherwise the entire layer was devoid of artifacts. Althoughthis layer was quite consistent across the entire space, the layers below it reflect many different makeuo/capping/restructuring events, including a layer of poorly preserved painted plaster on the threshold between space 500 and space 504. It is very interesting, then, to see such a consistent and clean layer applied across this enormous space as one of the final maintenance activities before burning the building and starting a new building atop it. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: white 

Texture: plaster 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: some ash, charcoal, particularly in SE corner 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, burning 

Basal Boundary: mostly clear, came down on several makeup layers as well as disconnected patches of earlier plaster layers 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30047 below: (Click to view the record) 22637, 22657, 22645, 22664, 22659, 22666, 22656 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 100 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 47

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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