Unit 3699

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: occupation debris between floors 

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

Dimensions: 0.94 N-S x 0.87 E-W x 0.03 m 

Discussion: (3699) represents skims of fragmented floors and the occupation debris above these in the S half of space 117. These were contained by F.289, a plaster 'lip' to their E edge. They seem to be the product of several episodes of plastering and use of the sapce contained by F.289. Some of the layers of plaster from (3699) may have been continuous with those of F.289, but their fragmental nature (especially to the E made this impossible to tell, so they were removed separately. Micro analysis of the sections left in the baulk should assist with decciphering the use of this area, but the 'dirty' nature of the deposits overlying the floors suggests that the ?? in the space may have been connected with the oven F.290 to the W of (3699). 

Recognition: (3699) consists of several layers of floor deposits and the occupation material between these, lying above (3912). a) = thin skims of grey/brown silty material to W of deposit; b) very fragmented white plaster floor to W of deposit; c) pale brown/grey layer beneath floor; d) pale grey layer above (3912) to E of deposit. 

Execution: Trowel/leaf trowel. 

Condition: Mainly dry but damp in places. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: a) 10 YR 6/3 pale brown/10 YR 6/1 grey; b) 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow; c) 2.5 Y 6/2 light brownish grey; d) 2.5 Y 7/2 light grey 

Texture: a) silt; b) chalky clay; c) silt; d) silt 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: a) occasional charcoal flecks + tiny pebbles; b) occasional clay/charcoal/phytolith flecks + tiny pebbles; c) occasional obsidian/charcoal/phytolith flecks + large pieces of shell <2%; d) 5% phytoliths + occasonial charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3905, 3680, 3681 below: (Click to view the record) 3653, 3900 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3673, 3672 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 24 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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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