Unit 31577

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Part of collapsed plaster 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: Part of collapsed plaster- fragments recorded in North central part of B132 

Discussion: It seems that the unit 31677 represents part of plastered ceiling that collapsed/felt down at some point after abandonment of the B.132 during its demolition phase. The deposit was uncovered along the Northern wall F.7584 directly below the lower room-fill (U.21670) that sealed whole interior of Sp.531. The lower part of the unit 31577 comprised of more dark-grey sandy sediment, that accumulated within the concave hollow. The latter can be clearly conceived as northern extension of sunken floor, recorded already in 2015 in central part of the space.
The same kind of amassed plaster material (assigned as U.31576) had been also revealed to the west and east the presented U.31577. However, the latter mentioned deposit was thinner less homogenous and apart from high proportion of white plaster inclusions it comprised also of fragments of make-ups. All of the above mentioned circumstances allow to presume that the collapsed/fallen plasters on the floor (31576) as well as those allocated as U.31577, they are the result of the same activity involving dismantling of the roof during the latest phase of the B.132. Definitely, the accumulation of plasters must have occurred before sealing the structure with others materials. That is why the Units: 31576 and 31577 were sat directly on the surface of the floor.
Worth noticing is that, analogical deposits (of plaster) were registered all over the lower room-fill (21670). They were mostly recognized in 2015 as more fragmented pieces of “cream and white debris of plaster” embraced within darker surrounding (see also discussion of U.21670) and they were not so aggregated as U.31676 or U.31577. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-white (plaster), mid-orange (make-ups), mid-grey (bricks) 

Texture: clay, silty-clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: fragments of plaster - 70% ; bricks - 15%; make-up - 15% 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31540 below: (Click to view the record) 21670 

Total Deposit Volume: 34 

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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