Unit 10459
Category: Cut dug in 2004
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: Burial cut
Data Category Information: Description: burial
Description: Fast track
Discussion: Truncated cut into plaster surface (10457). Later cut of F1505 which was cut from a higher level has truncated most of this feature so its difficult to say what its function was.
May have been for a grave. No evidence of this, or possibly a basin but again no evidenceto confirm this. The heavy truncation of F1505 makes the recovery of any evidence slight.
So this cut may represent a grave or basin or just a pit with plaster infill.
GSC writes: 29/07/04
This feature has changed in terms of interpretation and understanding during further excavation. Originally thought to represent a pit, it is now thought that thi sunit was actually a grave cut. Dug in association with an earlier E-W grave F1515, the only really visible remaining cut as was excavated was actually much deeper.
Grave fill (10475) was dug as the grave fill for F1515 but can now be attributed to this N-S cut due to its heavy truncation of the feature below. This grave contained only disarticulated human bone, representing 2 individuals - an adult male and a juvenille. It is thought that this N-S burial cut the E-W grave below and in the process a juvenille was placed within F1512, but at the same point, and for whatever reason, the skeleton has been removed and seemingly thrown back into the cut, along with the adult bones of skeleton (10499).
Both fills and cut edges were very difficult to determine due to midden-like deposits within a feature cut into midden deposits. It wasnt until the removal of the mixed juvenille and adult bones (and the removal of a Mother Goddess figurine) and the subsequent discovery of a partially articulated adult male within [10468] that it became clear that those bones actually related to a N-S grave cut. At some point, a juvenille burial must have filled this cut with the said individual being disturbed and removed at a later stage.
Recognition: Edge of cut visible as colour change and as crack in plaster surface (10457)
Execution: Trowel
Condition: Dry
Shape: Sub oval
Sides: Steep slope, straight
Base Break: Moderate
Base: Concave
Orientation: E-W
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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