Unit 11941

Category: Layer    dug in 2005

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Grave fill 

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

Dimensions: .220 EW x 0.5 NS 

Discussion: Byzantine/ Roman burial fill. West part shows burning traces, according to the color of soil black-brown. Just above the skeleton and doesn’t reach the skeleton.

Lots of nails are found in the north part of the left tibia. Most of them were concentrated in one point. 

Recognition: color 

Definition: Burial (?) fill 11915 

Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel, brsh, dental pick 

Condition: hot windy 

Consistency: massive 

Colour: brown with whitish and clay patches 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: mixed 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bone 

Post-depositional Features: animal tracks, modern plant roots 

Basal Boundary: it slopes to west 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 11951 below: (Click to view the record) 11915 

Dry sieve volume: 10 

Total Deposit Volume: 37 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

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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