Unit 6542

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: Trench I 

Interpretive Categories: Collapse/fill 

Data Category Information: Location: building

Dimensions: 1.72m EW x 1.32m NS 

Description: Plaster-rich collapse in fine, loose matrix 

Discussion: Rubble and plaster infill - presumably collapse. Lots of red painted plaster, plus pieces of daub/pise with reed impressions suggesting roofing/ceiling material or a light screen wall. It didn't come to a proper surface but cleaned off a whitish phytolith/salting deposit on the next layer of rubble, suggesting episodes of infill or collapse, followed possibly by levelling or a period of being left open before the next lot of fill came in. 

Recognition: Difference from overlying rubble 6531 

Definition: Contained by walls on three sides and Mellaart section on the fourth. Texture/matrix differs from over- and underlying deposits 

Execution: Hand pick, trowel 

Condition: Hot, dry, sunny, crowded 

Consistency: Friable, crumbly plaster 40%, loose matrix 40%, rubble 20% 

Colour: Plaster 5Y 6/2 light olive grey with dark red paint on one surface of much of it; soil 2.5Y 5/3 light olive brown 

Texture: Plaster - clay; soil - silt 70%, clay 15%, fine-medium sand 15% 

Bedding: Convolute 

Inclusions: Occasional medium pot <5%, occasional small-medium bone <5%, occasional charcoal <2%, occasional small-medium obsidian <2% 

Post-depositional Features: Lots of animal holes, still! Occasional roots 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6550 below: (Click to view the record) 6531 

Dry sieve volume: 160 

Total Deposit Volume: 182 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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