Unit 17619

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: TP 

 

Related Photo (Click to view larger version in new window)
  

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Dimensions: 0.77 x 0.45 x 0.16 

 

Discussion: This is a burial infill of feature 6001 (skeleton- 17616, cut- 17620). It was soft and quite hard to distinguish from the sorrounding layer (17621). It had grey and brown colour with a lot of charcoal inclusions and some pieces of obsidian, pottery and bones. It was partially destroyed by excavations in the 1960's. 

 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: infill of burial 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: grey, brown 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: charcoal, obsidian, pottery, bones 

Post-depositional Features: roots, animals 

Basal Boundary: abrupt, distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17616 below: (Click to view the record) 17621 

 

Dry sieve volume: 3 

Total Deposit Volume: 28 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 420

Features:: (Click to view the record) 6001 (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

Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

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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