Unit 10217

Category: skeleton    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 1.60m E-W & 0 .40m N-S 

 

Discussion: This Byzantine burial is extended W-E in a wood-lined pit. The cranium is fragmentary and broken and appears to have rolled past mortem to the right shoulder. The mandible and right temporal bonesare missing as well as both clavicles, the cervical vertebrae, and most of the bones from both hands. Since the hands appear to be disturbed by rodent activity, I assume these bones were taken or moved in this process, which may explain the absence of the other bones mentioned above. In situ age and sex estimation reveal an adult female, based upon dentition and degenerative joint disease, and general morphology of the cranium and pelvis. Wide sciatic notch, square pubis, small mastoids. A copper or bronze ring was found in the screen when the skeleton had been lifted. The long bones were fragmentary and dry and brittle. Preservation varied throughout. A copper ring fragment was found in the area of rodent disturbance. 

 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: supine, oriented W-E (dorsally extended) 

Head: west, resting on right side above shoulder 

Right Arm: extended and lower-arm under pelvis (hand missing) 

Left Arm: extended and lower arm under pelvis (hand missing= 

Right Leg: extended with extended foot 

Left Leg: extended with extended foot 

Other comments: late Roman/Byzantine In Situ Right femur measurement: 0.395m (prox-distal epiphysis) 

Surface Modifications: Rodent disturbance under pelvis and underneath both arms - thereforeö most of the hands are missing 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10218 below: (Click to view the record) 10216 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 1002

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1551 (burial)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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