Unit 11589

Category: Cut    dug in 2005

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial cut 

 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

 

Dimensions: 2.40 x 0.80 x 0,86 

 

Discussion: This is a cut of a burial pit situated in N part of an extension. The pit was dug in the middle of neolithic space 248 and contained a Byzantine burial. The pit cut neolithic floor (11752) which other part is on north side of the pit - thye cut in this place is straight.
The pit was forming a kind of niche in its south part - below wall 10985.

Within this cut several infills were distinguished - 11588, 11789 (whole surface of a pit), 12203 (infill with human bones and plaster possibly fallen from neolithic unit 10986), 12210 - clay later and 12211 and 12214 - bottom level of pit.

There was also unit 11795 being a cluster of bricks within unit 11789 in this cut.

The skeleton buried in this pit was recorded as unit 12202.

The lowest differed and ranged from 1016.54 (W part) to 1016.43 (E part), therefore the heights were 0.86 m (W) to 0.97 m (E). 

 

Recognition: consistency 

Definition: a cut of a large pit in N part of an extension 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Shape: oval 

Sides: N and W - vertical, S and E - undercutting 

Base Break: sharp 

Base: flat 

Orientation: E-W (slightly NE-SW) 

All Layers within: (Click to view the record) 4; 11588, 12211, 12214 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 12211, 12214 

 

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 

Related Photos: 24 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 405

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1921 (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 2005 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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