Unit 18542

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: collapsed floors 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2.40m x 1.30m x 0.20mm (Thick) 

Discussion: This appears to be a deposit of highly laminated thick coursley laid floors. The floor deposits consist of clay make up and occational plaster layers. These are sitting on top of a homogenous layer of clay and a very hard baked clay layer. These in turn sit on a highly fired yellow green, reduced clay with frequent wood impressions.

These are not wall plasters but clearly floor deposits collapseing into B79 burning its destruction by fire therefore it seems that these floor deposits must be associated with an upper story, higher than the existing walls.

The hard baked clay bellow the laminated floors represents an initial make up over timbers creating a floor surface.

The highly burnt and more fragmentary layer at the base of the deposit represents clay packed around the beams in the ceiling of space 134.

The relationship of these floors and wall (18529) is unclear as neither were fully excavated it is possible wall (18529) is infact associated with sat upon floors (18542) 

Recognition: colour, laminated appearance 

Definition: clear but poorly defined to the south 

Execution: sectioned by trowel 

Condition: hot and dusty 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: pale yellow/ red brown 

Texture: plaster and burnt sandy clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: occational obsidian and stone 

Post-depositional Features: extends beyond limit of excavation to east 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18529 below: (Click to view the record) 18539 

Dry sieve volume: 315 

Total Deposit Volume: 337 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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  

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