Unit 3450

Category: skeleton    dug in 2000

Area: Trench I 

Interpretive Categories: Burial 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: Length 1.55m x width (max.) - ? 

Discussion: Extended inhumation in sub-rectilinear grave cut. Bone in good condition althought the body has been partially disturbed by animal activity. Lower left arm broken (radius and ulna shattered), probably due to human disturbance.

Burial - Christian type with no grave goods, Byzantine in date owing to the grave cover (Byzantine tiles x3). Finger and toe bones have been dispersed/disturbed by animal birrowing. Skull slightly friable owing to being exposed in 1998. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: Oriented east-west with head at west end. Extended inhumation lying supine (on back) 

Head: On right hand side, facing south 

Right Arm: Slightly disturbed, top of right arm at jaw, right hand at pelvis/top of femur 

Left Arm: By left hand side, only humerus complete, radius and ulna shattered 

Right Leg: Extended below body, foot turned to the north, foot bones disturbed 

Left Leg: Extended below body, foot turned to the north 

Other comments: Body slightly disturbed, jaw completely in the wrong place - ?animal disturbance 

Surface Modifications: Animal disturbance in the area of the right lower leg and foot espacially 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3441 below: (Click to view the record) 3442 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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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