Unit 23468

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Floor,Plastered floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Deposition: multiple

Description: U23468 is the Eastern side of U23461, which was not affected by the fire burning on top of the U23461 series of floors. 

Discussion: U23468 was the Eastern side of U23461, which was not affected by the fire burning on top of the U23461 floors. U23468 was sampled separately for two reasons: 1) in order to maximize the routine-floatation sample from the burnt U23461 in order to have more possibilities for retrieval of appropriate charcoal samples for radiocarbon dating, and 2) because U23468 felt far more compact, as if it was a solid construction of plaster rather than series of floors. The findings from the plastered floors below U23468 justified this early decision, especially if the final model and orthophoto are examined; there is a very high possibility that the eastern part of the central, eastern Building 52 was in fact a platform, inclusive of more burials than F8521. On that final orthophoto a line running N-S seems to clearly separate the eastern from the western, central space of Building 52: burnt floors in the west -- white floors, probable platform and burials in the East. 

Consistency: Firm at places; compact at others 

Colour: White 

Texture: Sand 

Bedding: Fine parallel layers 

Inclusions: 99% plaster 

Post-depositional Features: Compaction from floors above; buring in the West (i.e. on U23461) 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, very sharp, distinct, smooth, flat and even 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23495 below: (Click to view the record) 21390 equal to: (Click to view the record) 23461 

Dry sieve volume: 45 

Total Deposit Volume: 71 

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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