Unit 5607

Category: Layer    dug in 2002

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill,deposit around the burial 

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

Discussion: NB check 5593 for stray H bone

Deposit surrounding the skeleton 5608. Same as general deposit in area-clay across whole midden area, seeing it as a bedding or levelling or consolidation layer area soft midden- appears to have been laid at same time as wall 1077 as bricks are similar material and wall immediately on buirals 1101 and 1102, such that the skull/ parts of 1102 and same bones of 1101 would have protruded as the wall was constructed. The skeleton was not placed in a cut as far as was visible. 

Consistency: mixed -upper layer of compact sandy silt and clay (20:40:40) and underlying soft ash and silt (20:80) 

Colour: mid yellow brown and mid grey 

Texture:  

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: clean clayey layer and usual midden deposit with moderate to freq cahrcoal, occasional white chalk flecks, occ caprolite and hackberries 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5608 

Dry sieve volume: 100 

Total Deposit Volume: 100 

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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