Unit 30114

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: White plaster floor 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: white clay; Deposition: single; Basal Spit: painted

 

Discussion: Multi-layered white plaster floor in E end of Space 87. This floor has been cut in 2002 to retrieve the burials under it. This layer belongs to a platform that extended N-S, reaching the E and S walls, platform F.7114 in the W, and U.30109 in the N. The platform F.7114 is a later feature.
The thickness of this unit varies between 1.5 and 6cm, this representing several re-plastering and possibly floor levelling episodes. The top of this unit, having been exposed since 2002, is largely eroded. The layer decreases in thickness N-S, the maximum thickness being encountered in the SE corner of the unit.
Remains of red paint, very similar to the one found on the S wall were uncovered at the edge of the platform lip running N-S and also embedded within the floor plaster. These could not be exposed due to their fragmentary condition. 

 

Consistency: Loose to soft 

Colour: White 

Texture: Clay 

Bedding: Layered - several re-plastering events 

Inclusions: Phytoliths (1-5%), charcoal (<1%) 

Post-depositional Features: Bioturbation (rodent burrowing) 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, very sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30140 below: (Click to view the record) 8467?, 30594 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 23 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

Features:: (Click to view the record) 638 (platform)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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