Unit 2756

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: accumulated deposit,floors 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Dimensions: 1.50m N-S x 1.25 m E-W x 50mm thick 

Discussion: This is the floor level that Mellaart stopped at - originally believed that not much of this floor survived & that he truncated most of them, however on excavation these came off in clear horizons, but 30 years of exposure and root activity made following only one floor horizon very difficult. There are also not only (?) clear prepared (i.e. laid) floors, to the SW these deposits are finely layered plaster floors, with mud plaster between or lensed with ashy trampled type deposits, further in the area. These deposits appear more multiple accumulative floor horizons of ash & mud. whilst digging these a burial was found and also the base of another hearth feature, therefore inadvertently the flotation sample will e somewhat mixed.
These floors lip up to the platform to the W.

20.9: Subsequent investigations have shown the burial was cut from below (2727) because of contamination and the varied nature of post-depositional survival of these floors, this deposit was slip into (2708) and (2801) 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: bright 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: plaster floor 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow; mud preparatory packign 2.5 Y 6/2 light brownish grey; 'trample' deposits 2.5 Y 5/2 greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: 1% <2 mm charcoal flecks; 2% <4mm plaster aggregates 

Post-depositional Features: heavily cracked and disturbed by root activity 

Basal Boundary: clear anthropogenic, fairly level but uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2325, 2326 2302, 2301 below: (Click to view the record) 2764, 2763, 2809, 2773 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2768, 2801, 1892, 1890 

Dry sieve volume: 8 

Total Deposit Volume: 42 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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