Unit 30508

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: U.30508 is a plaster layer + make-up of platform F.3694. It was the first one we were able to follow on the entire surface when we removed the floating patches of plaster layers remaining from the erosion of the platform since 2005 (layer u.20614).
It is cut by burial F.7127 (cut u.30502). It seems to be the original, first, layer cut by this burial. But such an interpretation cannot be verified because the relation between this cut and the lowest layers of layer u.20614 are lost…. It is thus not impossible that the burial was actually cutting also the lowest layers of u.20614… above and more recent than u.30508. It could even make sense in regard with the supposed late date of the burial (a "short" time before the burning of building 52 in order to have the organic tissues preserved). It is impossible to discriminate between this two possibiliies…
North-eastern part, next to the wall F.1577, was filled by some fragments of groundstone. These were filling a depression marked here by the upper layer of arbitrary layer u.30525. which is sinking toward the wall F.1577. So theses groundstone fragments have most probably a constructional function when layer u.30508 was built : filling and repairing this depression in order to have a flat surface. The exact same phenomena is observed on the platform F.3695 where the layer u.30634 is also sinking toward wall F.1577 and the depression also filled with fragments of groundstone in order to make a new flat plaster layer. Can we thus infer a same episode from this two cases : sinking of the wall F.1577 + repairing ? 

Consistency: South : loose. North: firm 

Colour: South : dark brown to dark grey. North: light brown to white 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: Thick layer of plaster which seems to be layered (several episodes of replastering?) + a very thin layer of make-up (more brownish/blackish and much looser). 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: Plaster layer of the arbitrary layer u.30525 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30525 below: (Click to view the record) 30502, 20614, 30503 

Dry sieve volume: 15 

Total Deposit Volume: 51 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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