Unit 3941

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: platform extension 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 0.8 m N/S x 0.16 m E/W; thickness 0.1 m 

Discussion: Layers of grey silt and plaster sloping down to E. Overlying ashy layer (3942). Extension to platform. 

Recognition: Multiple layers of white plaster and light greyish brown silt coming of platform to W and overlying grey layer. Sloping down to E. 

Definition: SW corner of space 117. 

Execution: Leaf. 

Condition: Evening. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: 1) plaster 2.5 YR 8/2 pale yellow; 2) silt 10 YR 6/3 pale brown 

Texture: 1) plaster clay; 2) silt 90%, clay 10% 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: 1) moderate phytoliths, occ. very small stone <1% <1 mm, occ. charcoal flecks <1% <1 mm; 2) occ. salts and phytoliths on interface, occ. charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: salts 

Basal Boundary: sloped down to E/anthropogenic/clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3942 below: (Click to view the record) 3930 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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