Unit 3934

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor layers and occupation debris 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 1.28 N-S x 1.22 E-W x 0.03 m 

Discussion: (3934) represents 2 layers of floors and the occupation deposit overlying them, to the W of ovens F.269 and F.293. These were recorded as a single unit as their composition was considered to be sufficiently similar (+ different from the floor/occupation deposits beneath) to be removed as one. The make up of this layering was remarkably (!) consistent across the area that was excavated between F.290 and the W baulk of space 117. No marked difference was noted between these deposits and those above them (also floor and occupation deposits). The plaster layer within (3934) was fairly fragmented. It may have been a floor layer, but if it was, it was heavily truncated. In the SW corner of the area excavated there was an additional layer of similar floor and occupation deposits which could have been the result of a floor repair in this area which slopes steeply down to the S. To the N, the lower floor layer was distinctly thicker where it rose up to the level of the N half of space 117. It could be that this floor layer also acted as part of the make up of this raised level. 

Recognition: Brown floor layers and mixed occupation debris lying above a charcoal rich ashy layer. 

Definition: See A. 

Execution: Trowel/leaf trowel. 

Condition: Dry/crumbly. 

Consistency: firm in places, friable in others 

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

Texture: a) clayey silt; b) chalky clay; c) sandy silt 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: a) 2-5% phytoliths, occasional small pieces of bone/shell/pebbles, 2% plaster; b) occasional flecks of charcoal/clay; c) 2-5% phytoliths , occasional charcoal/clay flecks 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation/root intrusion 

Basal Boundary: sharp/distinct; the surface beneath was fairly smooth + level and marked for much of its extents by salt encrustation 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3939 below: (Click to view the record) 3929 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3928, 3922, 3974, 3940 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 46 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

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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