Unit 23946

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

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

Discussion: This was a burial infill layer within a small and shallow cut (u. 23945) of irregular shape. The cut truncated NE corner of the platform F. 8661. It was an infant burial (skeleton u. 23961), the skeleton was placed directly on a surface of an older yellowish platform (F.8670).

The infill was quite homogenous. It was grayish with some small chunks of charcoal. The inclusions were rare and consisted of animal bones, obsidian, pottery, cristal and shell. 

Consistency: soft/friable 

Colour: light grey, light orange 

Texture: silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal, animal bones, pottery, obsidian, cristal, shell 

Post-depositional Features: rodent activity, plant roots 

Basal Boundary: distinctive, constructional, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23961 below: (Click to view the record) 23912 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 15 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II 

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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