Unit 20858

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial filll 

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

Discussion: The unit was evident in plan as a semicircle of dark grey-brown soil in contrast to the surrounding white floor plaster u. 20855. As we excavated it by pick, trowel, then bamboo sticks, it was clearly more friable than the surrounding matrix consisting of platform f. 3508's makeup. It was also darker, more heterogeneous, moister, and contained a large amount of salts and some charcoal. This unit represents the fill for burial f. 7015, one in a sequence of many burials in platform f. 3508. The compacted areas of the fill seem to be where it has dried out, since areas of this unit were initially exposed in 2013. 

Consistency: Friable to compact 

Colour: Grey but heterogeneous 

Texture: Sandy clay loam 

Bedding: Most likely massive though cut is difficult to discern 

Inclusions: High density of salts and charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: Cutting of subsequent burials 

Basal Boundary: Sk. 20859 and cut 20860 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20859 below: (Click to view the record) 20852 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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