Unit 30525

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: 4 plaster + make-up (of platform 3694?) 

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

Discussion: This layer incorporates 4 plaster layers + make-up identical to each other, and stops on the top of a very different plaster layer (much thicker and painted in red, cf. unit 30528).

The kerb F.3693 should have been excavated first. Indeed, during the removing of u.30525, we realized that all the 4 layers are running beneath the kerb. This last is thus laying on top of u.30525. We were not able to excavate this part of u.30525 running under the kerb (and maybe more). A section was let in situ. The kerb has to be excavated next year (2014) in order to understand this continuation of u.30525 and its relation with the platform F.3695 across the kerb. It is for instance possible that u.30525 doesn't belong to platform F.3694 anymore but to a larger single platform at the emplacement of both F.3695 and F.3694… This problem has to be resolved in priority next year by the removal of the kerb and the continuation of the excavation of platform F.3695 until this level. 

Consistency: South : loose. North : firm 

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

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Compound layered : 4 layers of plaster + make-up. Very thin plaster, very thick make-up for all this 4 layers which are very similar. The plaster is more whitish, the make-up is more brownish. 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: On the north-east part of platform F.3794, just next to the wall F.1877, the upper layers of u.30525 mark a depression (sinking of F.1577?). This depression has been filled up with fragments of groundstone when u.30508 was built (cf. unit 30508 for discussion and interpretation). 

Basal Boundary: Plaster layer painted in red u.30528 + infill in eastern and southern part (u.30528 truncated, cf. u.30528) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30528 below: (Click to view the record) 30508 

Dry sieve volume: 60 

Total Deposit Volume: 91 

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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