Unit 21795

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster floor/edge in hearth 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: white clay; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation); Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Unit is a micro event of plaster located in an extremely degraded state around the w, n, and e edges of hearth F 7402. It appears to be a lipped edge construction like U. 20078 excavated in 2014. However this layer is located cleary within the hearth not outside on the edges. Also it does not demonstrate discoloration indicative of intense burning (like hearth floors U. 22402 or U. 21749). This suggest this floor was added perhaps as a cosmectic construction, perhaps during a period of time when the hearth was not as much in use, and then covered by floors U. 21749. It is strange that F. 7401 should contain so many clean plaster floors which all do not seem to continue onto the s edge, and appear to be some kind of intentional border to parts of the hearth. It is clear this hearth was reused and remodeled many times throughout the life/phases of the B. 80. Perhaps for different functional and aesthetic purpose at different times. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: whitish gray 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: burning 

Basal Boundary: - 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22402 below: (Click to view the record) 21749 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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