Unit 10950

Category: Cut    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: grave pit cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Dimensions: 0,74 x 0,32 

Discussion: It is a cut of burial pit situated in N part of an extension. Only a half was excavated in this season because the other half was excavated in season 2002 as feature 955 (cut 7155)within the main trench.
The cut (10950) of this burial was crearly visible in W section of the main trench. The infill of the pit was excavated as unit 10948 and the skeleton of an individual buried have as 10949.
Over the pit a grave marker (10945) built of 3 diagonally placed in mudbricks was placed which was partly over the pit and partly over unit 10947.
In the basal boundary of the cut some mudbricks were noticed. The cut in its S side was forming a kind of niche going a bit under the stony layer (unit 10956). 

Recognition: colour, consistency, grave marker 

Definition: a cut of a child burial - another half at it excavated in 2002 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Shape: semi-oval (the other part of the cut of this burial pit was excavated in season 2002 as unit....) 

Sides: vertical in N and W sides, undercutting in S 

Base Break: sharp 

Base: flat to concave (in W side) 

Orientation: E-W 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 10949 

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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