Unit 4009

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor lenses 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: raised area (platform); Material: non-white laid floor; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: depth 0.2 cm; length 55 cm; width 35 cm 

Discussion: Fifteenth layer of floor lenses on platform F239.

This layer was made up of lenses of plaster (labelled 31 on plan 98-639), thin brownish layer (32 on plan) and layer of plaster (33 on plan). There was also a lens of dark material towards the NE area, not seen in section plan. Impossible to separate lenses, so given one unit number. 

Recognition: Floor of platform. Colour/texture changes. 

Definition: Defined by limit of excavation. 

Execution: Leaf trowel and patience. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: compact to medium compact, friable when crushed 

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/2 pinkish grey 

Texture: ashy clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: charcoal flecks 5% 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole SE corner 

Basal Boundary: contrast distinct, but surfaces pitted, cracks 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4010 below: (Click to view the record) 4008 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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