Unit 2512

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: makeup deposit 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in-situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 1.45m long, 0.90m wide, 0.07 m thick 

Discussion: A makeup deposit in platform F13 predates all the fine plaster layers. Truncated by the various burial cuts (which are far too numerous to mention here!)
This makeup appears to have been for the first remodelling episode on this platform. When excavating its northern extent, this deposit peeled off the wall revealing red plaster beneath and surface 2513 which appears to be continuous with this. This deposit extended the southern and south eastern Edge of the platform by approx. 0.05 m.
Towards the north this deposit started to incorporate more plaster / mortar in its construction, and was less clayey. 

Execution: mattock, shovel, trowel 

Condition: cool, windy, dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: clayey loam 

Bedding: massive - no internal structure 

Inclusions: occasional frags of burnt clay / daub (<10mm <2%), occasional scattered charcoal flecks (<5mm <2%); occasional flecks of mortar / plaster (<2%) 

Post-depositional Features: mineral salts have formed along the lower interface and animal burrow also present 

Basal Boundary: Textual and colour difference with 2513 reasonably well define (5-10mm). Interface is flat but concave in places 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2513 below: (Click to view the record) 2164, 2190, 1488, 2172, 2127, 2536, 2507, 2560, 2516 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1434, 1492, 2120, 2143, 1451 

Dry sieve volume: 25 

Total Deposit Volume: 55 

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:

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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