Unit 5243

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: make up for floor,surfaces 

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

Dimensions: c1.5 x 1.4 x 0.01-0.03m 

Discussion: Essentially same material as 5242, though 5243 underlies 5240 whlile 5242 was a continuation of material akin ro 5238 south of surface 5240. On excavation, however, both 5242 + 5243 appeared to comprise scrappy surfaces + were clearly distinct from the fills above. Their limits were harder to trace except where 5243 came onto clear plaster surfaces 5245 /5246. In the south of 5243 + especially under 5242 a coherent equivalent surface was hard to detect + the western part of 5242 seems to comprise plastery collapse with no evidence of floors (see plaster lumps on 676, 678) - there may be a cut feature (?post retrival pit) here that remains to be adequately defined 

Recognition: material below 5240 which was not an obvious surface (as 5244, 5245) 

Definition: N boundary real if not always clear, S boundary (with 5242) rather arbitrary + probably same deposit. 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: brown / greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: compound layered: a typical section around 971N comprises grey brown layer (c8mm thick) over a mid-brown layer (c1cm thick) with a very thin plaster lens between 

Inclusions: c5% plaster frags, c2% charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: as 5240 

Basal Boundary: clear or uncertain depending on nature of underlying surface 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5245 below: (Click to view the record) 5240 equal to: (Click to view the record) 5242 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 20 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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