Unit 15341

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: plaster floor 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: NS 0,97m x EW 2,33m x 0,08m depth 

Discussion: This unit could be interpreted as the earliest floor found in the NE corner of T5 so far, having been replaced at a later date by the U.15170 and the layers underneath. This floor is made up by a dark orangey-yellow plaster (with numerous disturbances) , which fades away gradually towards the southern edge of the floor, becoming a dark greyish brown sandy silt. Although the eastern edge of the floor is too disturbed to allow us to determine whether it continues into the baulk and westwards under U.15194. With regards to how the floor was constructed, after looking at it in section, it could be argued that a layer fo rubble (e.g. chunks of red and white plaster) was first laid down, followed by a thick first layer of dark orangey-yellow plaster, which was probably repaired at a later date by adding a second layer of the same material (see F.3330 for relations). In terms of elevations it is interesting to mention that the floor slopes down considerably towards ist western side (probably due to post-Chalcolithic movements in the soil). About 30cm away from the limit of the unit on ist western side, however, the floor raises approximately 7cm, forming a step, which mad be just the result of the weathering of the layers of which it was made up.
U 15341 was neither fully exposed (western part missing) nor removed as of the end of the 2010 season. 

Recognition: colour (dark orange yellow), texture, concistency 

Definition: clear in the W, E and south. Arbitrary in N (baulk) 

Execution: wooden clay tools, small metal picks 

Condition: under shelter, sunny early in the morning, shaded for the rest of the day 

Consistency: compact with softer spots of dark brown soil due to animal disturbances 

Colour: dark orangey yellow 

Texture: plaster 

Bedding: homogeneous - single layer of clay 

Inclusions: dark greyish brown silt attachted to the surface 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: fill under floor - not yet excavated 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 15196 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 11

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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