Unit 23429

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Fill of Basin 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: basin

Description: This is the earliest fill of Basin F7642; it includes compact yellow-white material and a thick layer of plaster at the bottom and the edges of this feature. 

Discussion: U23429, the earliest fill of F7642 was yellow, compact, but easy to excavate. At the bottom and the edges it was white, compact and more difficult to excavate. Samples S1 and S2 correspond to the yellow-off white (pise like) part of this fill of the basin. Samples S2 and S3 correspond to the structural plaster of this platform-basin: base and edges. The eastern plaster rim of Basin F7642 was not identified in 2017 and must have been excavated during the previous years. The northern rim of this Basin seemed to go up against the E-SE of Platform 7638; and its northern rim, up against the extension of Platform F7637, i.e. U23444. Basin F7642, was the latest addition in the West of Building 52, space 94; Fill U23429 seemed to have been used to transform this Basin into a platform or a step, filling it up to the level of the floors of Platforms F7638 and F7637. 

Consistency: Firm or compact 

Colour: White and yellow 

Texture: Sand 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: small pieces of aggregates 20% 

Post-depositional Features: compaction from features above; burning 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, very sharp, prominent, wavy, generally flat, uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) Unexcavated roomfill, 23807 below: (Click to view the record) 22237 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 33 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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