Unit 18489

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Grave Fill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0.60 m N-S x 0.86 m E-W 

 

Discussion: Grave fill for sk (18496) in northern part of NE platform (f 3400). The grave cut was clear in the eastern part of the grave pit where the fire in the building was lsess intense and the floor was still preserved. The soil in this eastern part of the platform was more compact and lighter in color relative to the western grave fill. The grave cut was less clear in the west where the floor had been burned. The soil in the west was dark borwn, loose and friable due to the intensity of the fire here. Even so, most of this grave was spared the highest heat from the fire as evidenced from the grave fill and from the skeleton whose skull, mandible and upper cervical vertebrae which were placed in the west were balckened while the rest of the skeleton was baked at lower temperatures and not blackened. The grave fill volume was relatively high since the skeleton was found low in the grave cut, with the exception of the feet in the northern section of the pit and the right proximal femur in the southeast. A flint tool (x1) was found near the feet. 

 

Recognition: grave cut evident in plaster floor 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, leaf trowel, small tools, brushes 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: compact in east, loose and friable in west 

Colour: light brown in east, dark brown in west 

Texture: clay silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional flecks of charcoal, bits of burnt clay, small stones, small plasters, salts 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows (rodents and insects), small roots 

Basal Boundary: no skeletal elements 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18496 below: (Click to view the record) 18491 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 100 

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 76

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 137

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3421 (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 2009 still to be released

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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