Unit 2805

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: make up 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 1.50 m N-S x 1.20 m EW x 40 mm up to 0.10 m thick to west 

Discussion: This deposit was primarily a packing/ levelling layer within the walls of this structure. Initially it appeared to be the earliest floors, but there was only a skim of floors in patches, best preserved in the SW centre. The base of this packing material coincided with the base of the south wall and runs below the platform to the west. It was similar to the underlying infill of the building to the extent that it may have been slightly overdug towards the west, this was due to following a natural break in the horizon i.e. it peeled off relatively well.
The fact that this layer bottomed at same horizon as the wall to the south suggests that the wall was constructed first and then this levelling/packing layer deposited. 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: nice and warm 

Consistency: moderately firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: 2 % < 4 mm charcoal/charred organics, 2 % < 3 mm plaster aggregates, 1 % burnt brick < 1 cm aggregates, 1 % ash lenses < 2 mm 

Post-depositional Features: heavily root disturbed 

Basal Boundary: diffuse, shares some charcteristics but on whole steers ? off at an anthropogenic constructional horizon 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2325, 2326, 2302, 2301 below: (Click to view the record) 2090, 2309, 2717, 2751, 1894 equal to: (Click to view the record) 2000, 2312 

Dry sieve volume: 195 

Total Deposit Volume: 233 

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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