Unit 18349
Category: Layer dug in 2009
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: collapse,floor
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 0.8m NS, 0.6m EW, thickness 30cm as of 2009-08-25
Discussion: JMR 28.9.2009
18349 consists of yellowish white plaster. İt is in the NE corner of space 310 where it forms a horizontal layer of plaster - ca 3-4cm thick - which is connected to the plaster of wall F.3313 in the north and the plaster of F.3315 in the east. These characteristics make it seem like a piece of plastered floor.
Further to the west and south there are other flat pieces of lumps of the same material floating in the room fill, but not horizontal. These pieces look like collapse fallen from above or broken off 18349.
As of 2009-08-25, not all of the unit had been exposed - next year , probably.
PTW 27.7.2011
This unit consists of a concentration of plasters in the northeast corner of Space 310/453, which connects or interfaces with wall F.3313 in the north and F.3315 in the east. After excavation of the plaster, the probability of my interpretation and its alternative are still not certain but it is worth noting that, concealed by the plaster layer (3-4cm) was a cluster of highly compact fill containing large secions of articulated vertebrae and goat horns, along with several medium-large pot sherds. This revelation lends some support to the notion that it may have been a floor/ tramplen surface covered by plaster, hence the compact nature of the fill below.
Recognition: colour, consistency
Definition: clear, limits of plastering
Execution: trowel, leaf trowel
Condition: hot
Consistency: soft, crumbly
Colour: yellowish white
Texture: fine, smooth, silty
Bedding: massive - homogenous
Inclusions: visually sterile
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: applied over cluster 15365 consisting of compacted fill and animal bones, as well as some large pot sherds, sloping downwards
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 15
Total Deposit Volume: 15
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 5
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2009 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
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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