Unit 10908

Category: Cut    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: burial pit cut 

Data Category Information: Description: pit

Dimensions: 2.79 x 1.2 x 0,63 

Discussion: It is a cut of a large burial pit in S edge of the extension. There were 2 layers within this cut - these were units 7845 (upper layer) and 8937 (lower one).
The cut 10908 cut a burial - which was also (in its W part) destroyed by Mellaart's trenches . - destroying its lower part. This skeleton was registered as unit 8989 and buried within layer 7820 (without a cut). Within layer 8937 a single femur (unit 8988) was found which might have belonged to the same individual.
In the base of the cut 10908 another pit - burial one - was dug. It was excavated as units: 10936 (infill), 10937 (skeleton), 10938 (cut) and 8917 - a grave marker built of diagonally placed mudbricks and placed in the base of cut 10908 next to (not just above but on its N side) the cut 10938. 

Recognition: shape 

Definition: burial pit in S part of an extension 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: windy 

Shape: rectangular 

Sides: irregular, in some areas - conacave 

Base Break: sharp to gradual 

Base: rectangular, sloping in E 

Orientation: NE - SW 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8917 

Dry sieve 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 

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

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