Unit 8445

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: packing and floor 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 1.80 x 1.10 m 

Discussion: Eastern half of kitchen area - removing of set of packings revealed after removing U. 8452 and 8438 (packing and floor). This unit also comprises 3 packings and 2 floors patches left in stripes along the ridge (former threshold) between F. 606 and kitchen, as well as rubby packing around F. 799. It's a thick layer of all kinds of soil mixed together in a firm and stable base for later floors or it could be all mixed up because it was more stepped on and used than any other area in the house. There was grayish-orange packing on the top, and when we removed it, a layer which is probably a floor though very damaged and trumpled appeared, full of salts and gypsum. This was the situation in the NE quadrant.
Approaching the area close to the oven F. 778, we come upon layers of red and black burnt greasy clay, mixed with ash, charcoal and salts.
Flotation sample 6 was taken from the roundish surface between cut F. 754 and F. 778 where ash and charcoal were predominant, a sort of rake out from the oven sitting on red pacing (could be part of U. 8443 actually).
In the southern portion of the unit we have thick rubbly coarse packing around F. 799 on one hand (in SE corner) and thick set of 2 floors (one white on top with red and black flecks, second black with salts, more like a slip) and three packings: red (orange), brown and gray. These deposits are up to 3 cm thick.
What is obvious at this point is that the inhabitants kept renovating the surface in the southern half of the kitchen with usual white plaster floor and orange or brown packing, whil in the northern part and closer to the oven they had put thick burnt heterogenous packing to level up the floof.
Basal boundary is more or less white plaster which is destroyed or burt in some parts. An extra plaster layer was encountered as well, south of F. 778, above the damages of a regular floor.
Western part of the kitchen is covered by U. 8449. Apart from other inclusions, lots of phytoliths and ochre spots.
Phytoliths, phosphates and ICP samples were taken for the previous unit (8452).


Photo numbers:
20020623_JPQ_060/064 - end of unit
20020624_JPQ_001/009 - end of unit 

Recognition: colour 

Definition: diffuse 

Execution: Mira tool, leaf trowel 

Condition: dry 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8466 below: (Click to view the record) 8452 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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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