Unit 32404

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: This floor was exposed after remove the primary room fill of the building. It extends over the entire area between the different platforms and the dirty floor (U32405) located in the SE part of the building. We remove in the same unit, the plaster on the top and also the makeup and also two more patchy floor layers.
First we remove a very thin layer of white plaster that was almost regular in all the area abutting the walls and the platform F7834 and that was covering the makeup. The makeup was around 0.02 thick, orange and quite compact. It spread only in the half part of the space, no finding any kind of remains in the north and east part of the area. This plaster+makeup was cut by the deposit pits F7831, F7832 and F7833 and was below a little remains of activity layer (U32412).
After that, we remove at least four more patchy layers around the whole space, cut by the same features, until we rich another clear floor U32455. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: White for the plaster, light orange for the makeup 

Texture: Clay, silt and plaster 

Bedding: The plaster, very thin, and also the make up was massive 

Inclusions: a bit of plaster in the make up, natural small stones and very small pieces of charcoal (less than 2% in all the inclusions) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: Diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32455 below: (Click to view the record) 22324, 32412 

Total Deposit Volume: 62 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX 

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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