Unit 32469

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Discussion: Layer exposed from last season, when this side room was exposed. In that moment they excavate the U22301 (room infill, in the whole room) and the U22337 (primary room infill in the whole room). In the W part of the space, they make a test trench 1.13 m x 1.60 m and almost 1 m deep, and they used the same unit number U22337 for test this part of the space.
During 2015 season they couldn’t find any floor layer in the Sp 552.
So this season our plan was remove the room infill in the rest of the space around (2.90 m x 1.60 m) and reach the building below, and also clarify if there was floors or not in the part that was still there.
After a fast cleaning, we realized that the layer exposed in the Sp552 was a quite compact layer, with remains of plaster, orange make up and greyish make up, very irregular all over the place. Was impossible to follow all this layers but all of them seemed to be remains of different patchy floors very eroded. We also realize the presence of different kind of object on the surface, mostly clay balls, stones and animal bones. This objects was concentrated mostly close the north wall of this space F7841 and we X find all of them.
A part of all this objects and the characteristics of the layer, we also documented in the NE corner of the space, a white plaster surface around 0.34 x 0.30 m with a round shape. Was much eroded but we think that maybe can be remains of feature, like a basin or a bin. When we removed this thin plaster layer we documented a polish black stone (X9) directly related with this possible feature (the elevation is 1004.37). Also, a bit more west of that plaster remains, there was another possible feature remains, a orange make up surface 0.35 x 0.25 m, very eroded defining a round shape, which elevation is 1004.28. Both elements, as we said, was much eroded and is difficult to know what they were, but as a hypothesis, they can be the remains of features of the room. We remove this evidence in the same unit as the floor.
So, in summary, from the characteristics of the layer, the presence of all this objects, the remains of a possible two features and the fact that there not was a floor layers documented before, we think that this layer is the floor/ circulation surface of this side room in the earliest phase. That "floors" were much eroded and damage but was quite clear in a few parts of the room, anyway we remove all this patchy floors together in one unit, including the remains of this possible features, until we exposed the room infill U32604 

Consistency: A bit loose 

Colour: Brown, orange and greyisg 

Texture: silt and clay mostly 

Bedding: Layered, with diferent patchy floor layers very eroded 

Inclusions: charcoal, plaster fleckes around 6 to 2 cm, bricks, mortar, stones, make up (fleks from 2 to 6 cm) 

Post-depositional Features: salts, animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: Gradual 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32604 below: (Click to view the record) 22337 

Total Deposit Volume: 458 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 9

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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