Unit 3776

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floors and wall plaster 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: c 0.3 m high x 50 mm thick and very patchy 

Discussion: Multiple applications of wall plaster and floor plaster and packing adhering in patches to south facing wall 52 associated with space 108 and at NE corner of dog-leg in the wall. These were primarily recorded in section to show location and depth which gives a height on the floor levels of space 108 or of Mellaart's floors 1084 excavated in 1996.

As these floors and wall plaster survived only as a skin on the face of the wall left by Mellaart's excavations little was done apart from routine samples (archive and flotation) and section recording.

In the extreme Western section where these plasters hit the edge of the excavation area was an area of floor plasters with red fragment - again in multiple layers. Not sure whether this was a paint or pigment dust as found through doorway 55 as unit 1525. 

Recognition: Adhering to south facing wall face of wall 52 in space 108. 

Definition: Floors laid on basal packing material and top defined by wall where plaster fallen off. 

Execution: Trowel - flotation and archive only. 

Condition: Dry and flakey. 

Consistency:  

Colour: Multiple of white and brown and white in floors - 10 YR 8/1 - 8/2 white - plae yellow, 10 YR 6/2 grey. 

Texture: Silty lime. 

Bedding: Layered floor plaster and packing; multiple and wall plaster applications. 

Inclusions: None visible. 

Post-depositional Features: 50% salt impressions. 

Basal Boundary: Clear sharp anthropogenic in constructional event. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1592 below: (Click to view the record) 1080, 1519, 1500 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1047, 1084 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

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:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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