Unit 10221

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Buried Fill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 1.6m E-W & 0.51m N-S 

 

Description: FT 

 

Discussion: This is a late Roman/Byzantine burial. The grave is lined with at least 7 upright roof tiles, vertically placed. The grave fill consisted of both friable soils and compact ones. The head tile is set such that it appears longer then the others--at a ''TT'' configurations rather than lined up. (symbol) There is not a tile at the position of the feet. The fill was quite deep with the skeleton resting directly on another set of tiles (5) which were plaed horizontally to complete the grave lining. There were several inclusions within the fill, including animal bone, a few pieces of obsidian and pottery sherds. The grave was impressive with the tiles. The grave cut was not obvious at the feet where the lack of an end tile made the cut less apparent. The last tile (SE corner) was inclined inwards towards the grave. 

 

Recognition: Tiles from grave; soil color within tiles different from surrounding soil in consistency & color 

Definition: clearly defined 

Execution: trowel, leaf trowel, brushes; head to foot 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: friable with patches of firm soil 

Colour: reddish brown 

Texture: silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: plaster, obsidian, animal bone, salts, pottery 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow, small roots 

Basal Boundary: tiles (later Roman/Byzantine root ....? ) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10225 below: (Click to view the record) 10214 

 

Dry sieve volume: 25 

Total Deposit Volume: 26 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

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) 1553 (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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