Unit 8568

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: PACKING AROUND F. 1010 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: AFTER REMOVING LAST FLOOR #15, IN THE KITCHEN, WE STARTED REMOVING PACKING AROUND F.1010 WHICH WAS NOT PART OF THE FLOOR OF THE REST OF THE KITCHEN. FIRST WE REMOVED PARTS OF SANDY BROWN PACKING AROUND THE OBSIDIAN CACHE (F. 799) AND IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THIS LAYER (THIS KIND OF SOIL) IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE STEP, SINCE THE SAME MATERIAL STRACTHES BELOW ALL THE OTHER LAYERS OF THE STEP, IT IS IT/S BASE, AND IT LIES DIRECTLY ABOVE MIDDEN. IT IS VERY STRONG AND SOLID. FLOTATION SAMPLE 2 COMPISES THIS LAYER. AFTERWARDS, WE REMOVED PARTS OF SOME KIND OF WHITE PACKING (PLASTERY) WHICH WAS APPLIED TO THE WEST FACE OF THE STEP, AND IT IS ALMOST THE SAME AS PACKING WHICH REPRESENTS NORTHERN (LATER) HALF OF ADJACENTF. 792 (BENCH). AT THE SAME TIME WESTERN PORTION OF RED BRICKY PACKING AROUND THE CUT F. 751 (PART OF LATER POSTHOLE) WAS REMOVED. THIS SOIL AND THE WHITE PACKING WERE BAGED AS FLOTATION SAMPLE #3 IT S NOW POSSIBLE TO SEE THE WAY THEY CONSTRUCTED THIS STEP. AFTER PLACEING THICK SANDY LAYER (ALMOST 10 CM THICK) ON THE MIDDEN SURFACE, THEY COVERED IT WITH DIFFERENT CLAYEY PACKINGS (WHICH WERE ALSO PUT AROUND THE LADDER POSTHOLES) AND THEN WIT WHITE PLASTER. 

Recognition: TEXTURE, COMPOSITION 

Definition: ARBITRARY 

Execution: TROWEL, MATTOCK 

Condition: DRY 

Consistency:  

Colour: 5YR. 4/4, 2.5 YR 8/3, 10YR 4/6 

Texture: WHITE PLASTER, SANDY, PACKING, REDDISH STUFFEDE CLAY 

Bedding: LAYERED 

Inclusions: BURNT CLAY, BURNT STONES, MIDDEN MATERIAL 

Post-depositional Features: ANIMAL HOLES 

Basal Boundary: MIDDEN 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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

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