Unit 3958

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: packing between floors 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: non-white laid floor; Deposition: single

Dimensions: c.0.90 m N-S x c. 20 cm E-W x c.1 cm thick 

Discussion: This unit represents a deposit of packing or some kind of fill on top of a patch of plaster floor. It was quite a mixed and firm deposit, looking pretty much like the other deposits around, it peels off from a plastered surface which seems to be the earliest level of floor in space 159. But unfortunately there is only a very small patch of it left.
This deposit might have been put over the plaster floor to level the new set of floors that would be made. 

Recognition: It's a layer that has a colour of brown and grey that looks like some infill on top of a plastered floor. It's full limits are not really known. Located on the NW side of space 159. 

Definition: See above. 

Execution: Trowel and leaf trowel. 

Condition: Good - dry. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 10 YR 6/3 pale brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 25% flecks and small pieces of phytoliths, 10% flecks of charcoal, 10% chunks of plaster, 5% flecks of clay, >2% shell (small pieces) 

Post-depositional Features: root and insect activity - but not much 

Basal Boundary: clear, sharp, and smooth basal boundary when it came out on top from the plastered floor bit, irregular and wavy at the E part of the floors, arbitrary to the S, past the floors 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3965 below: (Click to view the record) 3796 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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