Unit 11254

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: South 

 

Related Photo (Click to view larger version in new window)
  

Interpretive Categories: robbed-out grave cut backfill 

 

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

 

Description: photo pre-ex and also photo x1 in situ 

 

Discussion: Didn't really feel like a burial fill to me - altho' I haven't dug a burial here so I'm not sure - but seemed too compact, material often mudbricky, - with flecks of charcoal, small frags daub, mortar, plaster - cut appears to have been backfilled with building material - scrappy frags of human bone throughout, fairly evenly distributed. None articulated - appears to me to come from different individuals (colouration/size) but no pattern that I could see in distribution. 1 x find - bone awl.
Human bone people (department humainitie) say 2 individuals represented - juvenile and adult
L, W taken using CAD. T.C.C. 20-07-09. 

 

Recognition: recognised as probable grave fill - even prior to removal of (11226), - gradually revealed more as took off plaster surfaces above and released with removal of (11251) 

Definition: clear at top as cut [11265] through plaster 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: friable - firm/compact 

Colour: mid slightly orangy? Brown 

Texture: clayey silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: moderate charcoal flecks; moderate small frags of mortar and plaster; small frags daub; possible fleck of red pigment seen with frags of plaster; moderate disarticulated human bone - small and medium frags and small bones; occasional obsidian; occasional small stone 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:none below: (Click to view the record) 11243 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 63 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 44

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 120

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1320 (platform)

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: Yes Count of records:: 1

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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