Unit 12299

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Dimensions: 2.20 x 0.40 x 0.01 

Discussion: This is a small fragment of a floor in S part of Building 61. It is placed direclty underneath younger floor sequence(12289 and 12296).
Because it has the same shape as the unit above(12296) it wasn’t sketched. The floor is sloping to the east and in E-N part is truncated by Byzantine burial(11589). In S part the floor was truncated by yet unspecified constructional event and then filled up with bricky layer composed of fr. Of bricks, mortar and plaster. In the middle of the floor , on its entire width, one grey brick c 0.08 wide was placed. 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: fragment of a floor in S part of Building 61 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: windy, cloudy, humid 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: brownish and greyish 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive (with stones) 

Inclusions: - 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: prominent, sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13001 below: (Click to view the record) 12296 equal to: (Click to view the record) 12285 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 6250 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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