Unit 31863

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: collapse within roomfill,construction of a bench 

Data Category Information: Location: between walls; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: The unit U31863 was defined in 2015 based on plaster surface found within U3163 (the roomfill of sp 562) and was recognized as construction of bench F8292 on platform F8262. Both unit and feature was later divided into two U 31803 as the horned pedestal F8291 and U31863 belonging to probable later bench F8292 that incorporated the pedestal. The interpretation is uncertain because despite its apparent aligning with the edge of the platform and patches of plasters found on its surface upon excavating it didn't seem to have any intentional structure. Some layering was visible in the N part of the unit however further south the structure was much more heterogeneous, discontinuous and patchy. It was either due to the bench being badly truncated in prehistory or the unit being actually a collapse of some other architectural feature. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: heterogenous, patches of orangish yellow brick like material, dark grey mortar like material, and light gray mortar like material 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: white mineral and white charcoal specs in mortar like material 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 31803 below: (Click to view the record) 31363 

Total Deposit Volume: 20 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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