Unit 16088

Category: Cluster    dug in 2007

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: coffin (wood) 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial

Description: Beam Slot H 

Discussion: The wood of the coffin is almost completely decayed, leaving a loose stained fill, with bits of wood. The coffin (16088) also contained 14 iron nails. Around some of the nails the wood was in slightly better condition. 

Recognition: wooden coffins and nails 

Definition: fair 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, hot, hot and sunny 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: dark brown 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: iron nails 

Post-depositional Features: plant action and animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: poor onto cut base 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16056 below: (Click to view the record) 16060 

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 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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