Unit 16682

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: North 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: surfaces on platform 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted

 

Discussion: Layer of mid brown make up on platform F 1652 sealed by white plaster. Difficult to identify individual layers within plaster but appears to represent repeated plasterings of platform F1651,

|This unit seals is stratigraphicly above the sequence of geometrical wall paintings recorded around the platform in 2006.

Layer is considerably thicker on N and W sides. Layer is slumping into centre of platform. 

 

Recognition: colour, texture, visible in profile in cuts 

Definition: clear, over white plaster 

Execution: leaf 

Condition: windy 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: white / mid brown 

Texture: plaster / clay silt 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: occa: charcoal, animal bone, human bone (?) 

Post-depositional Features: aniaml burrow, cut by 16668, 14437, 14481, disturbed by roots 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16690 below: (Click to view the record) 16680 

 

Dry sieve volume: 20 

Total Deposit Volume: 44 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

49 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

100 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

1651 (platform)
 

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No
Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: No
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: No
Figurine Records: No
GroundStone Records: No
Heavy Residue Records: No
Microfaunal Records: No
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Phytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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