Unit 10403

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 22 cm N-S x 13 cm E-W 

Discussion: Infant burial found while Gareth was cleaning the northwest section of Gareth and Simon's area in the south. The frontal bone, meandible, right clavicle, and some ribs were exposed during this cleaning and removed before the proper excavation of the rest of the skeleton. The face may have been oriented to the north with the body on its back or its side. The burial probably had been eroded over time and displaced from its original position. Animal disturbance was evident in several areas of the unit, especially in the north, running in an E-W direction. The soil was quite loose and easily came away from the bone. The soil under the skeleton was distinct from the burial fill by being more compact and lighter in color. The feature number and burial cut unit is incomplete at this time and should be better evaluated when the area is exacavted from above.

During invesitgation to find cut for infant burial, some more grave fill was recovered from ex and sieving included: animal bone, obsidian fragment, and a human tooth.
DHB 2/8/06 

Recognition: bones evident in section 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, small leaf trowel, leaf trowel, brushes 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: grey-brown; mid-range color 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: small roots, small brick pebbles, animal bone, salts, obsidian deb., human tooth 

Post-depositional Features: small roots, animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: clear; light grey comapct soil with salt inclusions 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10400 below: (Click to view the record) 12572 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

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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