Unit 6695

Category: layer    dug in 2001

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor and packing 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: A small unit, started with scraping the thin white plastery layer, looks like a packing of some sort, but then we decided to scrape white plaster flecks further to the west. Further on it seemed plausible to scrape more and we hit a fairly continuous white "floor" (don't know yet) but very thin. It couldn't be traced accurately to the east. We found just patches. Since it all looks like packing, seems as if reddish and white layers are superimposed and unlikely to present anything long lasting. To the east we traced tiny dark patchy layer between red and white layers, obsidian (piece), occasional charcoal in the greyish thin layer which is present only to the east. Towards the place where the "screen wall" was it's sloping reddish packing layer is firmer to the south it seems. But it also seems that these packing/floor layers are stretching from the oven base to the north to the fire place in the SW corner or this space (158). This is now a rather big unit in terms of surface. We hit the black layer which is, so far, fairly easy to follow and continuous. We're closing this unit and opening two new ones, dividing, thus arbitrarily with the intention to hit black layer (basal boundry) on the whole surface if possible. We're continuing as 8104. A big unit in the end overlying what would later be uncovered- a white plaster floor! 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: reddish white, greyish, dark 

Texture: - 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: occassional charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: n/a 

Basal Boundary: smooth , sloping to the east 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8108, 8119 equal to: (Click to view the record) 8104 

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): 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  

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