Unit 3608

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: compound layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: floor (packing only); Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.40 E-W x 0.70 N-S 

Discussion: This unit contains slightly different material than unit (3398) (which is same level and next to unit (3608) E). The unit shows more massive bedding than compound bedding of unit (3398).

The soil has a darker colour and partly white lumps of plaster, or salt?

On the profile of the pit (S of this unit) appears a thin compound layer right beneath of this unit. This compound layer lying on top of a sort of looser deposit which is identical under neighbouring unit. 

Recognition: This layer is the same level as unit (3398) but the colour and the composition of the soil is quite different, it was a massive bedding unlike the compound bedding of unit (3398). 

Definition: It has an irregular shape lying under the N-S wall and a narrow strip along E-W wall of space 117. 

Execution: Trowel and leaf trowel. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10 YR 6/4 light yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: aggregates of mortar? wall/floor plaster, plant remains, impressions or voids from decayed plants 

Post-depositional Features: secondary carbonates 

Basal Boundary: prominent with a very smooth surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3698, 3615, 3619, 3610, 3640, 3663, 3670, 3937 below: (Click to view the record) 3398 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3608, 3617, 3605, 3964 

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):  

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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