Unit 3965

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plastered floor 

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

Dimensions: c.30 cm N-S x c.50 cm E-W x 0.5 cm thick 

Discussion: This unit represents a small patch of plastered floor in space 159. This patch must have covered the whole space but probably got worn through time. This patch is also the earliest set of floors in the space. This can be told by its levelling it slopes down from N to S. Its surface was quite smooth but not very clean. There were small flecks of charcoal on it. It peeled off from a quite irregular deposit. 

Recognition: Recognised by its colour and texture while excavating (3958) and (3718) before. 

Definition: Plastered floor fragment located in the N part of space 159, next to the W wall. 

Execution: Leaf trowel. 

Condition: Good. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: layered, 2 or 3 thin lenses same colour, same material 

Inclusions: <2% flecks of charcoal, <2% flecks of phytolith 

Post-depositional Features: salts 

Basal Boundary: distinctive/irregular/anthropogenic/sloping down from N to S 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4190 below: (Click to view the record) 3958 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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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