Unit 21277

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: packing layer in body construction pillar N/E 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: post; Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: U21277: this unit represent the infill construction of the body of pillar F3429. Any pit or post have been found for this pillar. Indeed this pillar was added during the modification of building in phase II. The body of the pillars are built by the packing with clay and plaster and then had been coated with clay. The excavation of the pillar helped us to identify three different infill layers on the height of the pillar from the bottom to up. In the bottom, a small advanced inward of height 0.50 m with of colors black and contains small bone and rests botanic. This part has been coated with the plaster U21278 decorated by red paint in geometric shape. The pillar with the painting belongs to the level 1 phase II. We must remember that during this level the North bench has not yet built. From level 2 phase II the transformation of the building is starting with the Platform and the extension of benches. In this period there is also the transformation of infill construction of the pillars by adding a layer of packed light brown sandy clay. The infill in the upper part is marked by burnt light orange pise-like clay. We think that part infill concerning the third phase. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: dark brown at the bottom/ light brown at the middle/ yellow /orange at the top of the pillar 

Texture: silty clay/ sand 

Bedding: compound layered at the bottom, massive at the middle, massive at the top of the pillar 

Inclusions: at the bottom: charcoal, small bons, 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: sharp, diffuse, faint, irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21281 below: (Click to view the record) 21278 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 12 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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