Unit 5007

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor and floor make-up 

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

Dimensions: 0.40m (E-W), 0.65m (N-S), 0.03m deep 

Discussion: 5007 was a mixed layer of scorched reddish-brown silt and plaster which directly overlay the floor surface 5083 next to the southern wall of building 23/ space 178. It represents either a very truncated 'clean' floor layer, or more likely, a floor packing layer. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: deep reddish brown with blobs of whitish plaster 

Texture: silt with clayey silt blobs 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 20% plaster (patches and flecks), <5% charcoal flecks, 2% burnt oven demolition debris, occasional flecks of obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: none obvious 

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

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5083 below: (Click to view the record) 5003 

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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