Unit 8866

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: mudbrick lining 

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

Dimensions: W-E 230 cm; N-S 50 cm 

Discussion: U. 8866 comprises the mudbrick lining of grave F. 1452.
It is worth pointing that the bricks (and brick fragments, since some of them are small and irregular in shape) narrow as they go deeper into the cut. There are also pieces of bricks on the bottom of the cut. They were first noticed upon removal of U. 8854 (the first arbitrary layer of the midden in sp. 226) and these are the southernmost bricks in what looks like a double-lined S egde of the burial cut.
As we proceeded with the excavation of the grave, we removed the vertically place mudbricks. We also removed the ''false bottom'' of the burial (i. e. the horizontally laid mudbricks). The bricks are made of silty clay, beide in colour. Few of them yielded Neolithic sherds. The biggest bricks were 55 x 18 x 15 cm.
The bricks of the ''false bottom'' were laid horrizontally and formed a compact layer, which covered the skeleton. In the W and the central part of the grave they were disturbed (animal holes and human activity probably) bu in the E part they formed a flat surface.
Both whole mudbricks and pieces of mudbricks were used but they fitted very well together. 

Recognition: beige mudbricks seen im plan in the midden 

Definition: clear mostly 

Execution: trowel, pick 

Condition: dry on top, moist deeper 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: beige 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: few pottery sherds (Neolithic ones) 

Post-depositional Features: plant roots, rodent holes 

Basal Boundary: skeleton 8879 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8878 below: (Click to view the record) 8865 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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