Unit 12231

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

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

Dimensions: 0,90 x 0,30 x 0,18 

Discussion: This is a fragment of largely destroyed burial pit dug into one of the walls in western part of the west extension trench (unit 12229). Its entire central and eastern part was truncated by Mellaart trench dugout in the 1960s. Hence, the overall size of the pit is impossible to reconstruct. 

Recognition: shape, consistency 

Definition: destroyed fragment of human burial 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot, windy 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: light brown 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by Mellaart´s trench 

Basal Boundary: irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12233 below:Mellaart leap

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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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