Unit 7229

Category: Layer    dug in 2001

Area: Trench I 

Interpretive Categories: Grave Fill 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: Very fine layer - basically clean up from after removal of skeleton which was sitting directly on the coffin stain / remains of wooden coffin. Essentially a 1-2cm clean up layer to define coffin.

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OIT901/31-32

OIT902/25-27 

Recognition: Recognised as fill under skeleton - as clean up of grave fill under skeleton 

Definition: Defined as clean up (word?) to define coffin (coffic stain as well) 

Execution: Leaf trowel and handbrush 

Condition: Hot, dry, sunny 

Consistency: Soft loose and slightly damp 

Colour: Medium dark brown, dry 7.5YR 5/2, wet 7.5 YR 4/2 

Texture: Silty loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Tiny fragments of bone (from skeleton) and animal bone - medium. (Skeleton crumbles) occasional asiana (?) pottery, small fragments occasional pebble - up to 3cm and flecks of iron and plaster (heated to coffin) also flecks of wood 

Post-depositional Features: Roots and animal activity had removed some of the coffin structure 

Basal Boundary: Clean sharp anthropogenic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7230 below: (Click to view the record) 7226 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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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