Unit 10218

Category: Cluster    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: wood coffin 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Material: wood; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: nails

 

Description: FT 

 

Discussion: The wood ''coffin'' appears to be a grave lining instead of an actual coffin. Doru made this suggestion and I agree, since most of the Byzantine burials are simply lined with ceramic tiles and it would follow that they used wood as well. Further evidence in support of this hypothesis is the absence of eastern and western woods sides (at the head and feet of the skeleton) and the presence of two wooden posts inside of the wood planks, just above the pelvis. Only a few nails were recovered ( 2 or 3 ) as well. It appears as through the bottom was lined, but the preservation was not as good beneath the skeleton. The wood planks are approximately 1 cm in width. The wood was well preserved and several wood samples were taken. 

 

Recognition: presence of wood inside grave cut (10, 219) 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, brushes 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: dark brown 

Texture: wood 

Bedding:  

Inclusions: nails 

Post-depositional Features: animal 

Basal Boundary: flat, clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10219 below: (Click to view the record) 10217 

 

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 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 1002

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1551 (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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