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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2004 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: cuts the W wall of sp. 243 and the NE corner of ''cul de sac'' of sp. 226 |
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| Grid X: 1055.4 Grid Y: 1147.2 |
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| Yet another one. Just as we thought it is a ''ghost burial'', a skull appeared. The story began on 15.07 when Tania removed plastery rim of this feature and excavated the cut to a depth of app. 40 cm and stopped after hitting hard construction rubble across the ''bottom''. The cut stayed like that for days and when I finally started cleaning it in order to complete the paper work - the skull popped out underneath the rubble. The position of the body and the inclusions/finds in the burial fill (late pottery. iron nails) undoubtfully indicated a Late Roman/Byzantine burial. The burial pit itself is quite large with unexpected slope of the E side. The iron nail indicated the existence of a coffin or some other type of wooden structure, which unfortunately was not encountered. My interpretation would be that this construction was sealed by hard clay construction rubble, which formed the ''false bottom'' of the grave (see F. 1452). It is still uncertain what was the function of the plastery rim on the surface but it definitely seems to be in relation with the burial. (some of it was also found in the cut). Different natures of the fill explains the 2 unit numbers, where the lower rubbly one was mixed with the regular,loose fill. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cuts: (Click to view the record) 1453, 1454 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 5 (Click here to view unit list) |
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