Unit 32365

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster floor & make up 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Plaster floor surfaces (about 3 replasterings) overlying crumbly clay makeup. As with most of the surfaces on platform 7950, these floors had impressions of botanical remains on them -probably straw or chaff. Overlies thick make up deposit which raises the height of the platform, unusual in the phases of repasting which tend to consist of than makeup overlain by plaster. This is probably to fill the gap at s of this deposit caused by uneven edge of f.7995 & 32365 may correspond with the addition of an extra course to this feature. Further excavation should clarify.

Plaster floor surface more ended in SE area of platform-perhaps suggestive of more intense/extensive activity in this area.

Prioritized (along with other floors 32344 & 32371) to find out more about organic material-is this the remnants of matting, part of the construction process, or the remnants of processing/craft activities?
Feedback showed that the material was mostly grass & leaves and is incorporated into the matrix of the plaster floor, so it looks like this material has been added as part of the construction process, as a temper or binding agent within the plaster rather than matting or the result of processing activities.

The latest of these floors had the highest amount of preserved organic remains, perhaps indicative of better preservation in the layers most exposed to burning in this building. 

Consistency: Firm, friable 

Colour: light grey-mid grey (depending on extent of burning 

Texture: SiIty plaster floor 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: occasional mudbrick frags, small pebbles & compacted clay 

Post-depositional Features: Burrowed 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32371 below: (Click to view the record) 32344 

Dry sieve volume: 40 

Total Deposit Volume: 76 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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