Unit 3759

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor 

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

Dimensions: c. 1.20 m N-S x c. 1.10 m E-W x c. 0.02 m deep 

Discussion: Underneath this floor came out a very nice yellowish brown coloured soft floor. There was not anything quite queer or special about the floor (3759) that took interest during excavation, but the floor that comes from underneath is quite interesting. It must be a very organic sort, imprints of plants were found on the basal boundary of (3759). But this yellowish floor does not cover the area that (3759) covered. It seems to end on the W where the cut is, just vanishes like (3759) on the N and is perhaps a little cut on the S. And because of all the animal burrows it has been quite hard to define things. When it comes to why these floors are just resting in the middle of nowhere, everything goes crazy. I dug the N and S ends of the space, went down even below the wall plaster at one part and just could not reach floors!! A room that has just an island of floors!! I believe that the rest of the floors were cut out while infilling the room. On the floors that were not cut maybe in its time, something special was going on in the area, and people just did not dare to change it. Of course, the last remark I made was very silly and came out with frustration. The probable thing is that the floors must have just worn out on the other sides of the room. That is interesting because where the floors survived is where they should have been worn the most. It is likely that people kept on repairing this area and not bothering with the others, and eventually layers of floor built up in the middle, and none on the sides. 

Recognition: Recognised by colour and texture difference from (3758). 

Definition: A layer of floor defined by excavation on S, fading away at N, and by walls on E and W. 

Execution: Leaf trowel. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 2 main layers; 10 YR 7/4 very pale brown and 10 YR 7/2 light gray 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: layered, fine lenses, has at least 2 main layers of which the 'very pale brown' layer has up to 5 fine lenses within it 

Inclusions: 5% flecks of charcoal, 20% phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: salts and animal holes 

Basal Boundary: sharp/clear/anthropogenic/very smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3779, 3785 below: (Click to view the record) 3758 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9

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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