Unit 23230

Category: Cut    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Infant basket-burial cut,Pit cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Description: Baby burial within a basket. A worked stone was found within the upper part of the Fill U.23229. 

Discussion: Cut U.23230 was unclear in the East; however, it was safely identified in the South, West and partially in the North. The cut was found 2-4 cm below surface U.23203, in the SW of space 620, and within the midden U.23227. The pict cut height was smaller than the basket, the upper part of which must have extended above the opening of the pit cut. 

Shape: circular 

Sides: concave 

Base Break: concave, gradual 

Base: concave 

Orientation: n/a 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23227 below: (Click to view the record) 232203 equal to:none 

Total Deposit Volume: 16 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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