Unit 11657
Category: Skeleton dug in 2005
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: burial
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: This is a juvenile skeleton whose head was missing. The age of the individual is tentatively estimated to be 7-10 years. Bone, teeth and stone bead anklets were found on and around both ankles of this individual. Preliminery examination of the anklet, leeth suggests they were dog or perhaps one was from a badger. The anklets were intertwined around the 2 ankles
LT hip missing
X1 on right leg, came out of groud as it was around bones. X2 and X3 on left ankle, were more mixed up in the ground and I could not follow 1 single line aroud for either of them. It seemed fairly certain however that there were two
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: body was lying on its left side, with the upper clavical away to the northwest, flexed
Head: the head was missing
Right Arm: on top of chest, bent at elbow with hand at left elbow
Left Arm: upper arm alongside body, bent at elbow, right hand at pelvis (lower arm under body)
Right Leg: flexed at hip and knee, upper leg lies across left leg, ie foot hear hip
Left Leg: flexed at hip and knee, knee in front of chest, ankles together, foot under right leg
Other comments:
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3
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:: 26 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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