Unit 32782

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: dirty floors 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Discussion: The layer U.32782 refers to the group of multi-laminated dirty floors situated in the South-Eastern part of the Sp.531. The floors had been recorded below their counterpart assigned under the separate unit No. 32764. The division between the two mentioned strata was based on the identification of the sequences related with the use of the bench F.7879 as well as the construction/rim U.32787 of the Hearth F.8327 whose execution (cut 32788) truncated the surrounded floors. As such the accumulation and deposition of the dirty floors U.32782 must have preceded setting of the mentioned hearth.
The densely packed layers of the dirt characterized by the lack of plastered laminations. However, within the entire southern part of the described layer there were more thick clayish layers that divided subsequent laminations of the ashy dirt. Comparing the others dirty floors excavated previously in SE part of the Sp.531, the layer 32782 was the most compact and packed with clay components.
The excavation of the floors had been conducted by the use of the GRID. The main axis of the Grid was established along Southern wall (F.3679) of the building, whose EW alignment positioned the further division of the room.
The sampling process relayed in collecting two samples from each of 1m x 1m square. One of the sample was taken specifically for Phytolith analyzes and it was recorded with ODD digit number: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. The rest part of the explored sediment within squared meter had been taken as flotation sample, enumerated conventionally by EVEN digit number: 2, 4, 8, 10, 12. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark-grey 

Texture: ashy-clay, silty-clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: charcoals, mineral salts 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32793 below: (Click to view the record) 32764 

Total Deposit Volume: 228 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 24

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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