Unit 1898

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: 2.0 m N/S 1.15 m E/W 

Discussion: For plan see: same extent as 1891.

floor remnants in SE of 112, partly overlying 1888 which domed up beneath it.

SF: (1898) lacks levels but type is approximately 1007.10 to the north & 1007.12 to the south 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: sunny & warm 

Consistency: weak (finner when dry) 

Colour: soil matrix 10YR 4/3 (brown), plaster aggregate 2.5Y 5/3 (light olive brown), (munsell colour taken when soil quite wet, although drier when excaveted) 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layer 

Inclusions: 40%floor plaster aggrigates, 5% brick aggrigates <2% charcoal flecks, bone fragments 

Post-depositional Features: moderate fine roots 

Basal Boundary: sharp, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1888 below: (Click to view the record) 1896 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 20 

Total Deposit Volume: 59 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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