Unit 8944

Category: Layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial infill,infill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 2,30 x 1,80 x 0,24 

 

Discussion: It is an infill of the burial pit in S part of an extension, within cut 8974 two layers were distuingished - upper one - 7801 and lower - 8944 and within layer 8944 a cluster of human bones (8954) was registered.
Within unit 8944 there were also placed 2 grave markers made of mudbricks - 7890 (bricks put diagonally and underneath it - 8975 (bricks put horizonatally) associated with another - older burial dug into the base of cut 8974. The older burial was registered as units 8976 (infill) and 8980 (cut) and 8983 (skeleton) and all these 5 units (7890, 8975, 8983, 8976, 8980) were forming feature 1171. 

 

Recognition: consistency 

Definition: infill in S part of an extension 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: windy 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid brown, mid grey 

Texture: silty sand and clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, shell 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: diffuse, faint, inclined (in S direction) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8954 below: (Click to view the record) 7801 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 405

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1171 (burial)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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