Unit 31142

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: floor,plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building

Discussion: This unit is the surface of B 106 that was under byzantine fill 16933. It is a white plaster layer that is on the west sloping up and connecting to wall F 5058, thus making it a floor or a basin, depending if the concave shape is original or not. It is above antother plaster 31174 (separated through fill 31175) and below a plaster 31157 (fill= 31156). All plasters are sloping up above a "hill" of fill / a construction, that is in the west part of B 107. The connection to the wall is made through a concave sunk (4 cm length) and then the plaster goes up to the wall for 4 cm (see sketch). The sunken little concave part is filled with 31173 and then covered by plaster patch 31172. On the buildings surface, 31142 is sloping down towards north, thus giving a concave form to the surface. All layers under it seem to follow the same shape, though only 31194 is present on the "hill". The northern limit is our artificial west-east section in the middle of the room.

Replaces former unit number 16932 for the excavated part) 

Consistency: soft-compact 

Colour: white, with pinky "veins" 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal, little stone, lumps of same material 

Post-depositional Features: plants, truncat by huge pit 

Basal Boundary: generally sloping towards north, irregular, brown-grey earth; 31180, on the hill basal boundary = 31174 and /or 31175, sloping down towards east 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31175 below: (Click to view the record) 16933 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 10

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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