Unit 8544

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor #14 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This unit comprises poorly preseved remains of floor #14 in the kitchen. It consisted of gray layer of floor with plenty of salts, gypsym and patches of plaster, and reddish-brown thin packing underneath. At many places it is broken and heavily damaged, mixed with middeny material. East of F.778 and north of it sort of make up was excavated, discovered before, because it looked as a fill of the cut (see unit 8548) but there it came out to be a mixture of different types of clay (red, black, white, burnt, scorched, etc.) put there to stabilize kitchen floors and features.
After this floor was removed, last floor (#15) in the kitchen was exposed at the entire surface.
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Recognition: consistency 

Definition: diffuse, almost impossible to define 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: extremely dry 

Consistency: loose to very loose 

Colour: 10 YR 5/1; 10 YR 3/5; gray, white, brownish 

Texture: salty layer of sandy clay mixed with middeny material 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: salts, gypsym, ash, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal holes, oven, cuts 

Basal Boundary: trampled, broken, irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8466, 8531 

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:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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