Unit 19568

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Burial fill 

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

Discussion: This fill, which came below the false brick bottom (U. 20499) was soft, dark brown and similar in consistancy to the fill above the bricks (U. 20480). The fill surrounds the skeleton (U. 19569) and contains many well preserved burial items due to the depth of the grave. These goods include several ceramic vessels, bone needles and pins, a glass vessel and many well-preserved coffin nails. The fill had a kind of U-shape to it as the brick layer above had collapsed in the center. The skeleton within the fill was extremely well preserved and articulated with a few anomalies in the fill such as tarsal bones in the fill near the ribs and the atlas vertebrae above the skull. One other thing of note was a thin, flat piece of seemingly square charcoal (wooden) that was directly over the front of the skull. There was no trace of burning on the bones or in the fill, however. 

Recognition: below false brick bottom, around skeleton 

Definition: within burial cut (U. 20499) and around skeleton (U. 19569) 

Execution: trowel, brush, wooden skewer 

Condition: slightly moist 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: dark brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: burial items, charcoal bits, obsidian shards, coffin nails, skeleton (U. 19569), small clay bits 

Post-depositional Features: roots, traces of animal activity (possibly a burrow) 

Basal Boundary: sharp (bottom of the cut), smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19569 below: (Click to view the record) 20499 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 420 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 27

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

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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