Unit 5112

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Remnant floors and floor packing 

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

Dimensions: 0.69m e-w x 1.26m n-s x 0.12m 

Discussion: 5112 was a compound deposit made up of layers of floor and floor packing adjacent to the overhanging wall F 467 to the east and cut through by the cut 5111 for the obsidian rich deposit 5095. Much of the deposit was obscured by the overhanging wall F 467 and so could not be excavated until this was removed. The survival of plaster floors in this area implies that they might at one time have covered the south east corner of building 23, although they only survived here, adjacent to the wall, where they were relatively undisturbed. The south-eastern corner of the deposit, directly overlay pieces of burnt wood that has apparently been burnt in-situ. This apparently extended into the wall F 467 but was removed to prevent its destruction. This may just have been a deposit in the corner of the room, but could have had some structural purpose since it lay in a diostinct 'bowl' in this area. Further excavation to the west, revealed another area of patchy plaster 5131 which could be the equivalent floor layer to the remnant plaster floor in this deposit. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Varied-dirty yellowsh-white; flecked greyish brown, pale brown; dark grey 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Compound layered 

Inclusions: 10% plaster, 5% charcaol, 5% clay lumps, occasional tiny pebbles/ obsidian flakes 

Post-depositional Features: Some salt encrustation 

Basal Boundary: Sharp, smooth and sitinct, sloping down from the mixed clayey surface to the west and forming a lsight 'bowl' to the south of its extent 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5134 below: (Click to view the record) 5111 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 104 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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