Unit 2190
Category: cut dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: grave cut
Data Category Information: Description: burial
Dimensions: 0.70 m long, 0.40 m wide, 0.12 m deep
Discussion: This is the grave cut for the main inhumation 1955, in addition to the infant skeletons 2165 + 2125, and the disarticulated skull 2126. 1955 lay on the flat bottom of this cut, which must have been dug with some care as the base of this feature was only millimetres above the bones of skeleton 2169, yet aside form some pressure fractures this earlier skeleton was not truncated or damaged. This again illustrates the care that people were taking over these inhumations.
The southern edge of this cut was unclear due to later truncation, probably by F38 and other burials
(2nd sheet added around 17.9)
This cut was initially thought to be the inhumation grave cut for 1955. however, the re-interpretation of this lower burial sequence caused by the human bone team finding hand bones belonging to 1955 under 2169 suggests a slightly more complex story.
Rather than being a true cut per se, 2190 now seems more likely to represent a combination of activities. After the original primary grave cut 2536 had been re-cut / emptied by 2176, it is likely that a 'revetment' was cut into the northern edge of the burial at the same time of immediately afterwards, and then 2169 and some of 1955's long bones (2506) were put into 2176. This was then filled up with dump deposits until a flat interface level with the flat base of the revetment was achieved. 1955 was then pulled over the top of this chronologically later skeleton.
This explains a few details of 2190 I had noticed - its very flat base only millimetres above some of 2169's bones, which would have been extraordinarily hard to actually excavate in this way. A deposit interface here makes better sense. Also, the apparent lack of a southern edge - 210 never had one, only being an accumulation of its northern edge.
Execution: trowel, hand shovel, small tools
Condition: dry, warm
Shape: irregular, cut curves round on its N side. Its NW extent is well defined by a subrectangular 'box'
Sides: smooth, quite regular and steep (6 in 1) to NW they become vertical
Base Break: quite sharp to N and NW, more gentle to E
Base: flat and irregular in plan
Orientation: broadly E-W
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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