Unit 3878

Category: layer    dug in 1998

 

Area: North 

 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: non-white laid floor; Deposition: multiple

 

Dimensions: less than 1 mm deep; 55 cm length and 35 cm width 

 

Discussion: Fourth layer of floors on platform F239.

Possibly part of layer 4 in diagram 98-639 (i.e. unit 3877), or is a layer that was not seen in section.
Patchyness in colour of this layer probably means that it occurred as part of a separate event to (3877) and could not be seen in the section. 

 

Recognition: Colour change from previous unit (3877), directly above. 

Definition: Defined by limit of excavation. 

Execution: Leaf trowel and patience. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: medium compacted, friable 

Colour: very patchy 7.5 YR 4/4 brown, also reddish patches and dark grey in areas 

Texture: silty clay, slightly ashy 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: charcoal pieces 1 mm 10% 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole in SE part of excavation area 

Basal Boundary: diffuse, contrast faint, surfaces uneven 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3879 below: (Click to view the record) 3877 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume:

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

5 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

154 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

239 (platform)
 

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No
Ceramic Records: No
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: No
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: No
Figurine Records: No
GroundStone Records: No
Heavy Residue Records: No
Microfaunal Records: No
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Phytolith Sample: No
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