Unit 11608
Category: Layer dug in 2005
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: burial pit fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: burial soil/fill within cut under platform F.1320. Contains articulated human remains, also disarticulated remains. The bones were more concentrated to the south and east of the presumed cut for the burial/burials. But contued as a relatively even scatter of bones to the north. This northern area contained more infant/baby bones, or at least ones that were appearing on excavation. The bones almost 'frame' burial 11493 below.
Soil is rock solid in places, and bones are very fragile. With 2 skeletons out, no cuts are visible yet. Cuts remain invisible after 5 skeletons out. Must be present however as some bodies are truncated by others. Masses of disarticulated bone, especially towards the eastern wall which bounds the fill - bones pushed to edge to make room for more in the centre??
Cuts never became visible, 7 skeletons removed in total, teeth, fingers and toes scattered throughtout and used to determine the final shape of the cut.
07/09/09 SF
This unit number represents the fill associated with burials F.1344, F.1346, F.1347, F.1348, F.2050 all of which are associated within a 'parent' feature burial F.1343.
With the introduction of the MNI calculation through the H.remains DB, a problem occurred that the MNI was repeatedly calculating MNI from fill (11608) as the fill was asociated with all the above associated features.
Therefore the fill (11608) was removed from burial feature records (F.1344, F.1346, F.1347, F.1348, F.2050), and only kept associated with F.1343 to address this problem BUT in reality represents the fill around all the above features. F.1343 and fill (11608) should therefore be viewed as the 'parent' feature and fill.
Recognition: within ill defined area under platform 1320
Definition: not very good
Execution: trowel, leaf trowel
Condition: dry
Consistency: very compact
Colour: mixed light grey/brown with patches of lighter grey/white plaster
Texture: silt clay
Bedding: compound
Inclusions: moderate bone (many disarticulted human, with some animal, human bone peas. Com) obsidian, pottery, occasional stone/pebble, bead
Post-depositional Features: animal burrows
Basal Boundary: indistinct, very difficult to see
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 370
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 38
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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: 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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