Unit 21656

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Primary 

Data Category Information: none

Description: Targets used:
A - 41, B - 42, C - 43, D - 1. 

Discussion: A child skeleton in a supine flexed position with both upper limbs flexed at the elbow on the torso. The lower limbs were both tightly flexed and on rotated to right side of the torso. The cephalic externity was rotated to the right and flexed. A perforated (two holes) worked shell 'gorget' was found beneath and in direct contact with the right side of the cranium, apex up. Only partial foot elements were recovered and the hands were also represented. This would indicate that this was a primary burial, but that the extremities may not have been complete when this individual was deposited. Stains of what may have been a textile was recovered and sampled. This child was deposited immediately on top of an adult sk.21657. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 1045; Target A - Y: 1183.76; Target B - X: 1045.03; Target B - Y: 1183.27; Target C - X: 1044.19; Target C - Y: 1183.25; Target D - X: 1044.04; Target D - Y: 1183.78 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: very friable and highly fragmented (breaks that occurred in situ) 

Surface Modifications: bones were a brown orange colors indicative of heat transfer. Rodent burrowing 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21650 below: (Click to view the record) 21655 

Number of Samples 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 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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