Unit 3892

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor lenses 

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

Dimensions: length 55 cm; depth 35 cm = approx. 0.9 cm (total) 

Discussion: Seventh layer of floor lenses in platform F239.

This unit was made up of at least 8 lenses. Some of these were discontinuous, patchy with rough, pitted surfaces. Most of the disturbance occurred in the SE area of excavation. Some could not be seen in section. They were roughly as follows:

1) clayey silt layer 7.5 YR 5/6, no inclusions, labelled 9 on plan 98-639
2) very thin dark, greasy layer, 7.5 YR 4/2 brown, ashy, number 10 on plan
3) pinkish brown layer, few charcoal flecks
4) dark greasy layer
5) red brown layer, poss. 11 on plan, with salts
6) pinky brown layer, only in NW corner, psso. 12 on plan
7) plaster layer,
8) then brownish plaster layer, 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown, 13 on plan 

Recognition: Floor of platform. Colour/texture changes. 

Definition: Defined by limit of excavation. 

Execution: Leaf trowel and patience. 

Condition: Dry. 

Consistency: compact but friable 

Colour: see below 

Texture: clayey silt, mainly 'trample' lenses more ashy, greasy 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: see below 

Post-depositional Features: animal hole in SE corner 

Basal Boundary: see below 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3893 below: (Click to view the record) 3891 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

<< BackDownload this Units Data