Space Number:  237

Area: North  

Within Building Number: 47 

Phasing:
Mellaart Level: Unassigned at present 

Hodder Level: North.J 

Additional Phase Info: Heavily eroded at the surface of the mound, Sp.237 of B.47 ies over B.67. Prior to the introduction of the Hodder phases Sp.237 of B.47 had been allocated to Mellaart Level IV - III very crudely based on comparison of the material assemblage but Mellaart levels of buildings/spaces NOT excavated in the 1960s have been removed to allow an independent assessment on phasing. NB/Work in progress. Correct as of date entered or modified. 

Description:
Inner space of building 47. It is contained between the grey bricks walls and the grey bricks platform. "L" shaped space with two raised areas N and S: Both this raised areas are supported by two short walls. This two walls could be part of earlier structures, that is why; we did not remove them. They have features 1558 N and 1559 N. We think that they could have been earlier features reused by building 47, because this happened a lot in this building. We know that they are retaining walls and not supporting or partition ones because the floors inside the space go up next to them and then over them, sealing them under.

There is a large number of floors inside the space all of them going up on the raised platforms, both ends of the space and low in the middle.

At some point between the floors (often a number of roughly 14) an oven was constructed in the middle of the lower area of the space. This was cut into the earlier floors, ovardal shape and probably had a cover (see feature 1555 sheet and its unit sheets). When the oven was not in use any more they backfilled the pit and seal it under subsequent floors. This later floors are a bit different from the earlier ones, being mostly white plaster.

With this later floors, on the S-E corner of the space, a bin was functioning. This was a rectangular feature (brick and mortar) divided in two square spaces by one brick. In the fill of it we found a cluster of large sheards.

There is one other feature in the space 237, 1556. This is a circular cut with a square clay box on the bottom. It was under the floors of our space, so that's why we allocate it to this space, but the floors were mixed in the area (not paralel layered), potentially not in situ, that is why we should keep a reserve of may be the whole thing is later. 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

Conservation Recorded: No

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