Unit 23610

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill of a burial pit 

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

Discussion: The sediment 23610 was recognized as an in-fill sealing the cut 23611 situated in the North, North-Western part of the Sp.531. The recognition of the feature, however, was not so simple. The identification was based mostly on the Infill U.23610, especially on the convex form of a densely packed sediment and its darker hue that seemed to be more moisture. All of the presented above factors allowed assigning it as a potential pit. The fill was composed of the same material as surrounded leveling deposit 32761 recognized allover the Sp.531. The only exception was more fragmented components and mentioned moisture caused probably by the high percentage of clay elements. In the course of the further excavation the sediment appeared to be the burial fill underneath whom there had been skeleton U.23617 revealed. Within the infill there were number of animal bones recorded which was caused by the fact that the cut truncated underlying midden-like sediments with abundance of the inclusions that were again backfilled as a sealing deposit. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: dark-grey, dark-brown 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: charcoals - 5%, broken ragments of bricks - 20% 

Post-depositional Features: later truncations by burial cuts 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23611 below: (Click to view the record) 32090 

Dry sieve volume: 620 

Total Deposit Volume: 689 

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): 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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