Unit 5094

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Floor make-up 

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

Dimensions: 1.6m e-w x 0.87m n-s x 0.09m 

Discussion: 5094 was a compound layer made up of various apparetly contignous layers of floor make-up or 'packing'. The most substantial component was a thick grey-brown clayey deposit to the north-west. However this interleved with other clayey deposits to the south and east and since they were interpretatively similar and apparently roughly contemporary, they were recovered as a single unit. They seem to represent an attempt to build up the floors on the eastern area of building 23 to the height of the wall which underlay this building. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Varied-homogeneous, mid grey/ brown to the north and west of the deposit. Flecked with plaster, clay and charcoal to the south, with some larger patches of plaster 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Compound layered-it included 2 apparently contemporary deposits that interleved where they met. 

Inclusions: 5-10% plaster; 2% burnt oven debris; occasional stones, obsidian, charcoal, small lumps of clay and bone 

Post-depositional Features: Salt encrustation in places 

Basal Boundary: Sharp and distinct. Smooth where it overlay mixed clayey deposits to the south, more regular where it overlay oven to the north west 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5131 below: (Click to view the record) 5093, 5077, 5087 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Total Deposit Volume: 58 

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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