Unit 21274

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster packing floor on platform 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: re-used brick&mortar; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Another thick packing floor layer on the platform F3441, it contains mix of bricks and mortar, plaster and small stones. This layer may be represent the third later flooring events on the platform F3441 (phase I and II). This packing floor sited directly on top of the earliest ridge foundation of original platform as well as on top of the earliest orange plaster floor U21275 (level 2 phase I). Floor U21274 is contemporary with the floor (U18993, U21270) phase II, and the floor on the main space U21256, the plaster floor U21253 and bench F7429 on the platform 7411, as well as the plaster floor U21249 on the southern platform 7423. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: white/ light orange 

Texture: silty clay/ sandy at the bottom 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: brick, clay mortar, plaster, and small stones 

Post-depositional Features: trucation burials 

Basal Boundary: very sharp, distinct, constructional, wavy, 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21275 below: (Click to view the record) 21272 equal to: (Click to view the record) 21257 

Dry sieve volume: 15 

Total Deposit Volume: 40 

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 

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

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