Unit 3653

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

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

Dimensions: 0.86 x 0.57 x 0.09 / 1.2 m E-W x 1.3 m N-S x between 0.03 and 0.02 m thick 

Discussion: (3653) represents a layer of fairly pure yellowish plaster with patches of homogenous brown, silty material within it. It spread across much of the area towards the plaster division (see sketch plan) to the E of it and some of its extent may have been removed in the very compact/trampled /cracked layer above (3626). It consisted of a fairly thin layer of material for much of its extent resembling some sort of floor depost. To the W however it seemed to form part of a far thicker deposit of similar material from which it was hard to distinguish as a separate layer. All of these overlay a more extensive layer of ash and could represent a single episod of deposition. It could therefore be interpreted as a floor make up layer of plastery material which overlay a very degraded floor. This interpretation was supported by the baulk section.
Levelling deposit the top of which may have served as a floor surface (SU).
Excavation of the floors beneath revealed that the earlier floors of the S half of space 117 lay in a deptression sloping down from a 'lip' which ran from E to W across the building. It seems then that (3653) represents a deposit that was added to raise the level of the S half of space 117 to that of the N half. The flors above this, run roughly horizontally across the space, although a similar N/S clean/dirty division between the N and S halves of the building seems to have confirmed. 

Recognition: A mixed yellowish-white layer mixed with chocolate brown, both purer than the mixed greasy floor make up above, (3626). 

Definition: See above (Continues underneath N/S baulk and into S baulk. Truncated to SE. Tapers to W where it abutts lip of fire intsallations. SU) 

Execution: Leaf trowel/trowel, some unexc. left in baulk section. 

Condition: Dry in places, damper towards the W baulk. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: plaster 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow; mixed brown lenses 10 YR 4/2 dark greyish brown; paler brown lenses 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: chalky/silty clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: occasional flecks of charcoal/shell and phytoliths + occasional flecks of yellow material (yellow ochre?) 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation and bioturbation, also cracked and dry in E as has been near surface over winter, truncated to S by (2707) and ?? this by (3658) 

Basal Boundary: A sharp/distinct/anthropogenic basal boundary, which was smooth and level and marked by salt encrustation in E where it overlay ash layer, to S it was abrupt/smooth/sloping down to E 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3672, 3673, 3699 below: (Click to view the record) 3731 equal to:part of 3966

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 44 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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