Unit 10705
Category: skeleton dug in 2004
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: skeleton
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 65 cm E-W / 22cm N-S
Discussion: Burial was discovered 06 July 04 during excavation after 4040 area was expanded. Pieces of the cranium and some teeth were disturbed and later bagged and removed by MAP in order to expose the rest of the skeleton. Much of the skull is missing as are the hand and the feet. Some infant phalanges were found next to the the left ilium. Thought to be Byzantine due to the the depth and orientation fo the burial. No clear grave cut was discerned- the pit dug was arbitrary and only excavated in order to expose the burial. Elements of an adult were also found. Including a phalanx left in situ above the right radius and a premolar found in the back dirt. There is also a fragment of adult bone, what appears to be a piece of transverse process. This was also left in situ next to the right femur. Little was found in and around the burial. Soil was dry and contained gravel size clumps- many roots found throughout.
Conditions and weather: dry and hot with little breeze
Associated Units (won't let me enter this)
10701 Fill
10705 Skeleton
10711 Cut
Number: 1600
Type: Feature
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: body is extended with the head (or remants of) to the west
Head: head is missing; pieces of skull were found in loose top soil
Right Arm: R. arm is extended along the right side of the body. There is no hand. An adult phalanx is found above radius
Left Arm: L. humerous is parallel with the axis of the body and is extended. There is no radius, ulna or hand
Right Leg: R. leg is straight extended out from body; there is no foot
Left Leg: L. leg is in the same position as the right and the two legs angle in towards each other. There is no left foot.
Other comments:
Surface Modifications: No clear grave cut was identified. There was extensive root damage to the skeleton and should be clear in the photo- with roots throughout the bone and grave. Burial was close to the surface which may account for its poor condition
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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