Unit 31143
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: Floor patch,Whole floor
Data Category Information: none
Description: Floor 31143 in building 98
Discussion: The unit was initially identified within unit 31137, but was first thought to be an internal layer in floor 18376, as only one floor had been previously identified in the sondage. Therefore it was not sampled separately here. It was further defined in 31138, directly below 18376 with no 31144 till present. This gray fill was approximately 1cm thick in 31137, but was not always present between 18376 and 31143. Once the patchy nature of this floor was better understood, it was excavated as a separate layer in units 31136 and 31135. Again, here it was sometimes present in some patches, and sometimes over wide areas. Like 18376, it thickens near the buttresses and walls, especially in these corners. It was a bit muddled in the SE corner of 31135 and was excavated without sampling before its character was realized. It is of a higher quality and more regularly flat (1-2cm) than the above 18376, with a yellowi,sh-white colour and fewer inclusions, though chaff voids and phytoliths are similarly present. It seems that this floor was damaged, causing its present patchy character and then replaced with 18376 atop. Animal activity may also have destroyed some areas, as burrows are clearly present. The floor thickens to 3cm and becomes more gray in the NE corner of buttress F 3326 and wall F 3324. Once this floor was removed, the profile of both the wall and the buttress clearly show that the floor goes into both features and was thus present below before the wall and the buttress were built. Potentially, this floor was from an earlier construction phase and walls that were further to the east than the currently standing F 3324. Moreover, this earlier phase may not have had buttresses, or they were destroyed/covered by this floor's installation. Just next to wall F 3324, chunks of mortar came out of the floor and from just underneath it, possibly indicating destruction of a prior wall feature prior to this floor, as did perhaps the extreme thickness and strange boundaries in the southeast corner between strata.
Consistency: compact
Colour: yellowish-white
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: phytoliths, chaff, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: plants, animal and insect burrows
Basal Boundary: flat with pockets
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 34
Total Deposit Volume: 49
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of Related Diary Entries: 7
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
| Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window) | |
Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| |
Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| |
| Features:: none |
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
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
main sponsors
secondary sponsors
