Unit 32042

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: combined plasters and make-up layers 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: multiple; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: An arbitrarily grouped 2 layers of fine plastered floors combined with 2 make-ups constituting the top surface of E-platform F.7734 of Sp.531 had been excavated under individually assigned Unit no. 32042. The presented deposits were restricted to the North by remains of a curtain wall (F. 7735) and post-retrieval pit (F.7870). The Western limit of the described floors constituted the Western edge of mentioned platform. The Eastern demarcation of the unit was set on the NE alignment of E-wall F.7736. The southern restriction had been established on the evidently protruded structure of the Bench F.7879.
The outlined above quarter measured 1.80m (NS) x 1.66m (EW) and formed quite flat surface sloping slightly in Eastern direction. There was also recorded a shallow depression in central part.
The two layers of plastered floors, identified as a part of the unit 32042 were represented by thin (2mm thickness) mid-white clay coating whose exposition during the winter season caused noticeable destruction marked by cracked pattern. Between these two plasters there had been recorded two mid-grey, silty-clay make-up layers (1-2mm thick).
The exploration of the presented floors gave important insight into a nature of the platform. It seems that the raised surface (F.7734) acted in the past individually and plastering episodes evidenced within the rectangular protruding must have had their own biography separated from the white-coating in the others parts of the Sp.531. It is marked by different kind of plaster (u.32042) which may be regarded as better quality and thinner. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: Layers of mid-white (plasters) & mid-grey (make-up layers) 

Texture: clay, silty-clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32038 below: (Click to view the record) 31540 

Total Deposit Volume: 15 

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 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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