Unit 3344

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floors,infill 

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

Dimensions: 1.15 E-W x 0.82 N-S x 0.12 m 

Discussion: This is the layer underneath (3191) which was infill. This layer is infill as well. As I mentioned in (3191), space 160 was divided by a bulk from the middle to understand the layering in the room. We tried following the layering by looking at the section of the fill on the E end. There seems to be layers on the section, but once the area starts being excavated no layers can easily be distinguished, so we think that the section is quite misleading. In the layer, there were aggregates of brick and plaster, underneath this layer a lighter coloured layer came out which was given numer (3379).

Note that the bulk was taken off while excavating (3343), (3379).

(see note [3343] sf June 2000) 

Recognition: It is an arbitrary layer, made underneath infill 3191. The reason why this layer was made is because we came close to the floors in space 160, so decided to divide the area in two and leave a bulk in between to see the layers. So this unit is the E part of infill in space 160. 

Definition: Defined by wall at S and N, by excavation at E and section by W. 

Execution: Trowel. 

Condition: Moderately moist. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 5/4 10 YR yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 10 % salt, <2% fragments of charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: n/a 

Basal Boundary: hard to define but smooth, sloping down from E to W 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3379 below: (Click to view the record) 3191 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3343 

Dry sieve volume: 100 

Total Deposit Volume: 115 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIB 

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  

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