Unit 15412

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fill of grave 

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

Description: Trench 10 

Discussion: The cut for the Byzantine grave was not recognized at first, but instead the actual coffin (15420). The wood was well-defined and thus formed a clear containment of the fill (15412). The wooden coffin (15420) was well preserved like that of coffin (15027) in Foundation Trench 11. The fill was very middeny, as that it was dug into midden (15400) and likely refilled with the disturbed midden once the coffin was placed. Most of the fill was neolithic material, but there were some pieces of pottery that looked more modern and were probably deposited whrn the grave was cut [15421]. 

Recognition: fill of late grave 

Definition: fair 

Execution: trowel, mattock 

Condition: hot and painfully windy 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark grey and ashy 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: frequent animal bone, pottery; occasional stone, clay ball, obsidian, whole skeleton (sort of) 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation 

Basal Boundary: poor onto fill and midden 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15607 below: (Click to view the record) 15066, 15099 

Dry sieve volume: 300 

Total Deposit Volume: 600 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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