Unit 19877

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: fill pit 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial

Discussion: This unit is located in the north-east corner of the excavation area in B89. The shape is ovoid and its color is reddish gray in the highest part of the layer and gray-reddish in the lower part, so the unit is layered and unoriented we have found a tooth and a finger and some bones probably belonging to an infant.
After the excavation of the unit 19879 we understood that this unit is a fill of a retrieval pit aimed to remove some bones (maybe a skull?) from the bigger pit, because on the bottom of the cut we found one or two skulls.
The unit was excavated by leaf-trowel.
28/07/13 While er were digging the unit 19897 we exposed the skeleton (U 30900), this skeleton is exactly on the bottom of the cut (U 19880), filled by the unit 19877. So, this unit is not a post retrieval pit but a burial fill. 

Consistency: mid compact 

Colour: gray/reddish 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layered; unoriented 

Inclusions: 10 % tiny fragments of plaster 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: abrupt 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30900 below: (Click to view the record) 19874 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 6 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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