Unit 4981

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: clean floors and make-up 

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

Dimensions: 0.70m (E-W), 0.81m (N-S), 0.04m deep 

Discussion: 4981 was a compound layer of mixed plaster and reddish-brown silty material which appear to represent either truncated floors or floor make-up/ packing above the oven F539 against the southern wall of building 23/ space 178. A small part of the renmant superstructure of the oven may also have been removed with the floors, since it was heavily truncated and little different in appearance to the material of the floors themselves. Where the deposit ran up towards the basin F521 to the west, it appeared to foorm a clearly plastered surface or floor, however this was not the case elsewhere. It contained fragments of oven debris and was probably the first floor surface made in the area following the use of the oven F539 which it overlay, but it was clearly different to the dirty floor layers to the west of it. The deposit was excavated to an arbritrary section line along its western edge to 'fast-track' the excavation of the area to the east. The equivalent layer to the west of this section was 4998. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: patchy - reddish-brown, orangish-brown and brownish white 

Texture: silt/ silty clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: 2% charcoal, 2% plaster, occasional flecks of obsidian and shell 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: sharp and distinct, sloping from west to east 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5090 below: (Click to view the record) 4978, 4980, 4991 

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): X 

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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