Unit 3325

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: multiple floor and wall plaster 

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

Dimensions: 1.65 x 0.16 m, 0.17 m thick 

Discussion: Partially excavated in 1997, multiple + continuous wall and floor plaster at base of E wall of space 112. Inset at an acute angle, probably due to the unchanging of E wall. Jonathan (Last) questioned these thick floor and wall plasters as remnants of a platform. As most was excavated by Mellaart we no longer have that evidence but it is a possibility, however, it is also true that the corner wall junctions are areas of good wall/floor plaster survival. 

Recognition: finely layered cream plaster + varying shades of mid-brown inter floor packing tipping E towards wall + contiguous to wall face 

Definition: up to wall face to E 

Execution: trowel from edge 

Condition: flaky at top and edges but moist and very clayey in middle 

Consistency: moderately strong 

Colour: compund layered of 2.5 Y 7/3 pale yellow, 2.5 Y 5/2 greyish brown 

Texture: line of silt (40:60) 

Bedding: compund layered of similar deposits, plaster 4 mm, packing c. 3 mm 

Inclusions: 2% small fragments and flecks of salt, 1% small fragments orange clay, 5% unorientated small fragments of phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: 2 % tiny roots 

Basal Boundary: clear anthropogenic, sharply inclined towards wall to E + vertical against wall face 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2746 below: (Click to view the record) 2040 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2781 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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