Unit 32440

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Dirty Floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: single

Discussion: Layer exposed after remove the dirty floor U32421, sited in the SW part of the fire installation area, and related with all this features. It extend 0.80 m length and 0.30 width, and is abutting the platform F7834 (probably the 2nd Phase). It is dark grey with quite a lot charcoal intrusions, and with clay and silt in the compositions. This layer is the same as the U32456, the dirty floor documented in the E part of this fire installations area, and also with the U32455, the “clean” floor in the rest of the space. All this layers belongs to the second phase of the building and are related with the hearth F7837. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Dark grey 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: natural, salts 

Basal Boundary: gradual 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32462 below: (Click to view the record) 32421 equal to: (Click to view the record) 32441 

Total Deposit Volume: 2 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

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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