Unit 8000

Category: layer    dug in 2003

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Plaster layer 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: basin; Material: white clay; Deposition: single

Discussion: A fairly even layer of plaster though thicker at the rim. The plaster layer slopes up on to the platform (1302) towards the north. The rim of the basin is made of plaster all the way down to the next layer. The plaster was harder and more compact at the rim - edges and more "lumpy" and "chunky" in the centre. A shell was found upside down towards the NW corner, as well as a stone. A few pieces of charcoal here and there, as well as a few pieces of bone. A lens of darker, coarser material was also contained within the plaster.

This unit represents a plaster layer of the basin. 

Recognition: As left by Greek team in 1997 

Definition: By contour and colour 

Execution: By trowel and brush 

Condition: Very good 

Consistency: Soft and harder in some areas 

Colour: Creamy light brown 

Texture: Fine silty lime 

Bedding: Massive (see discussion) 

Inclusions: Bone <1%, Stone <1%, Shell <1%, Charcoal <1% 

Post-depositional Features: Truncated 

Basal Boundary: Constructional, gradual, gradual slope to south, uneven. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8003, 8060 below: (Click to view the record) 2615 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 27 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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