Unit 30096

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: formation,make-up layer 

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

Description: A composite layer that comprised of a formation deposit and associated laminated plaster surfaces. The plaster surfaces survived as fragments and in patches across the top of the context, therefore the above desrciption is of the formation layer. The plaster was light grey white and varied in thickness between 5mm and 25mm. The formation itself was not a consistent layer; there was a concentration of fired clay rubble at the south east corner of 30096. Lying adjacent to the blocked 'oven' F.7983 this concentration has been interpreted as the rubble that resulted from the dismantling of F.7983. This rubble was intermingled with the clay silt of which the main part of 30096 was comprised, it also 'peeled' off of the lower horizon as cleanly as the remaining matrix of 30096. Therefore, this too was subsumed into 30096.

Similarly, at the south west corner of 30096 there was a marked difference between the composition of 30096 and a silty deposit that had frequent medium sized fragments of fired clay inclusions. Unlike the relationship between the silty elements of 30096 and the rubble at the SE and that of the relationship with this 'silt with fragments' (32346) is one of integration. 32346 had a sharp basal boundary with 30096. 32346 also continued over interfaces with contexts that 30096 very clearly, deliberately respected. Thus 32346 was recorded separately . 

Discussion: Variants in thickness from 20mm to 60mm that corresponded with undulations in the lower deposit XXXX contrasted with an even upper horizon. 30096 was a solid, stable deposit that sealed XXXXX and provided a horizon for all the later features: Hearth 7957, Pit 7989, Platform 7981, and sealing all other features related to the entrance complex of B131: Platform 7954, Bench 7966 and (possible) Niche 7984. Though not as stratigraphically certain as the relationships with these features Oven 7953 is very likely to have been related to the plaster surfaces of 30096. (The base fo the Oven respects the horizon which 30096 formed and was overlain by the same depositis as that buried 30096.)

A significant layer, the relationships with the features of this area suggest that 30096 marks an episode of transition, transformation or renovation of the entrance to B131. 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: mid red brown 

Texture: sand clay silt. 10:30:60 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional small fragments of charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: rodent disturbance 

Basal Boundary: anthropogemic:very sharp:distinct:smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:32301 32367below: (Click to view the record) 32338 

Total Deposit Volume: 63 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

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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