Unit 4506

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: floor layer,wall plaster collapse? 

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

Dimensions: 1.32 E-W by 0.76 by 0.05m max. depth 

Discussion: (4506) was an irregular, E-W remnant, of a substantial ( up to 25mm thick ), plaster floor surface. Also recorded as part of this unit, was an underlying 'make-up'/levelling deposit: grayish - light to mid brown clayey silt, varying in thickness from 2-25mm approx. I noticed, what appeared to be, v. fine layering within the plaster. It could be, that this deposit was wall collapse, rather than floor (i.e. wall plaster) , although the thickness throughout the deposit, seemed too uniform for a collapsed, or dumped deposit ?? 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: off whie plaster/grayish light to mid brown 

Texture: slightly-clayey silt (approx. 10/90) + lime ? plaster./clayey silt (approx. 20/80) 

Bedding: layered-within plaster otherwise massive 

Inclusions: one large clay ball, occ. to mod. charcoal fl. <2% mod., v. small, white siliceous plant remains < 2% 

Post-depositional Features: truncated at W. by oven 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic ? abrupt to diffuse, distinct to faint, smooth to slightly uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4780 below: (Click to view the record) 4505 

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): X 

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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