Unit 19477
Category: Cut dug in 2012
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: burial cut in Byzantine grave
Data Category Information: Description: burial
Dimensions: E-W 2.2 x N-S 0.5 x 0.25 m deep.
Discussion: The burial cut is very regular, but has some disturbance of animal burrows in the north side.
The corners are very clearly rounded.
In the western part, at the head side of the burial, there was a brick laying oriented along side the western wall. It has a shallow depression cut into it. Perhaps this was done as someone dug here to find the head of the dead person. See feature sheet.
Recognition: Different material between infill and material around. The walls of the burial harder than fill.
Definition: Defined by difference in materials
Execution: Trowel, brush
Condition: Dry
Shape: rectangular
Sides: vertical
Base Break: sharp - gradual
Base: flat
Orientation: E-W orientation
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2012 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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