Unit 21707

Category: Cut    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: cut to burial on platform F.3442 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Discussion: This unit is a burial cut belonging to grave F.7406 found on the north west platform F.3442. Unit 21707 was found underlaying the white plaster layer (U.20096) primarily covering whole suface of the platform. The extent of this cut and its shape in plan started to be clear since we revealed thin plaster cap layer overlapping the burial fill (U.21706).
It is worth to note that this unit consisted of a very shallow grave cut. It seems to be directly related with the very young age of interred individual (female aprox. 38 weeks old). The infant burial (F.7406) had been discovered very soon close to the upper part/surface of the infill.
The base part of this cut seems to be determined by another white plaster layer of the platform or by some clean plastered floor surface. It seems to be more than possible that the body of this little baby was interred in the very shallow grave putting the deceased deliberately on some plastered surface. 

Shape: irregular 

Sides: vertical 

Base Break: gradual 

Base: flat 

Orientation: E-W 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 21709, 21706, 21702, 20096 

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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