Unit 1479

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: c.0.6m w-e, 0.35m n-s, ?0.15m deep 

 

Discussion: After the excavation of NW and SE quadrant of platform 13 down to the top of the skeleton, we now have started digging NE quadrant cut. Cut of grave already visible on surface after the removal of upper floors previously. Series of multiple white floors now removed. This cut fill, now removed as 1479. NB This is grave 35 it is the latest in the platform, so the body (skeleton 1913) is intact only distinguished by a large animal burrow. Dry Sieve Information: Unknown if any dry sieve 

 

Execution: hand pick and trowel 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 10 YR 5/2 greyish brown 

Texture: silt loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: redeposited flooring. Charcoal <2 % 

Post-depositional Features: roots and burrows 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1913 below: (Click to view the record) 1363 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of X-Finds 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 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 183

Features:: (Click to view the record) 35 (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

Ceramic Records: No

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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