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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 2004 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: center of north platform space 112 |
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| Grid X: 912.5 Grid Y: 981.5 |
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This feature incorporates a number of elements. First there is a skeleton (10813) oriented roughly east-west. The head is located in the west and faces upwards. The body is on the back and the knees are drawn upwards to the right of the chest. The arms are bent and both converge on the right shoulder.
On the skeleton a number of objects were found. On the left part of the chest a large bone hook was found (x1). On the right chest, below the left leg, a cluster of 5 flint objects and one antler point (cluster 10835) was found.
The skeleton requires further study but a first assement indicates we are dealing with an adult male.
Directly below the skeleton reddish brown discolorations of the matrix were encountered, which may be the remains of some kind of organic material, but could also be the result of the leaching of the weaker bone tissues, such as ribs and vertebrea. Two samples were taken in unit 10831.
Burial 1709 disturbed earlier burial 1711 (skeleton 10814), whose bones were placed along the edge of burial 1709 (the remainder is located below 10813. The skull of 10814 was found in post retrieval pit 1705, and appears to have been lifted at the time 10813 was interred.
In order to position the bones of 10814 along the edge of f. 1709 the cut 10830 must have included the scatter of these bones along the periphery of skeleton 10813. On that basis an arbitrary cut - unit 10830 was defined around the skeletal elements of 10813 and those of 10814. Other than that no difference in matrix (between fill 10831 and matrix 10812 to the north) or cut edge was recognized.
To the west 10813 was positioned with its skull on top of skeleton 10829, but the latter skeleton was not disturbed. Nonetheless it is clear that 10813 was interred at a later date. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 1710 |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 1705 |
| cuts: (Click to view the record) 1702, 1711 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 8 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 116 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 5 (Click here to view unit list) |
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