Unit 2514

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: makeup deposit 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: main part=1.00 m wide x 0.90 m long, max depth: 0.12 m. 3 smaller patches to north and north east but only one in corner of room: > 0.02 m. thick 

Discussion: This material represents the initial construction of the platform. Though a massive, unstructured and poorly sorted dump of material, this material appears to have been deliberately selected/created for constructional purposes- it is not just a random collection of material. It contrasts markedly in both contour and texture with more middeny-derived levelling material below. This deposit is actually present in discrete patches, but only given one number. Only the larger southern block and the one in the NE corner of the room has any thickness though. 

Execution: Trowel, shovel and mattock. 

Condition: Warm and dry. 

Consistency: Firm. 

Colour: Mostly 10 YR 6/6 brownish yellow, but with darker 10 YR 4/6 mottles. 

Texture: sandy clayey loam 

Bedding: Massive- mixed dump of material. 

Inclusions: Moderate to frequent mudbrick/mortar fragments (<50 mm<20 %), occasional scattered charcoal flecks (<5 mm<5 %), occasional flecks of plaster (<2 %). 

Post-depositional Features: Some very occasional fine rootlet penetration, some deposition of mineral salts. 

Basal Boundary: Undulating but well defined interface (0-5 mm) with ashy middeny finer makeup/levelling deposit below. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2184, 2185, 2188, 2189, 2150, 2151, 2194, 2192, 2515, 2509, 2165, 2170, 2198, 2181, 2171, 2522, 2505, 2517, 2166, 2167 below: (Click to view the record) 2513 

Dry sieve volume: 35 

Total Deposit Volume: 62 

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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