Unit 14219

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: Bone deposit 

Data Category Information: Location: feature

Discussion: Deposit seems to be fairly shallow, upon excavation. Ist spread is essentially as defined before excavation, which was a surprise as it sits in a reasonably clear burial cut - what now seems to be happening is that a small deposit of human bones is sitting on top of the actual burial in the cut; this deposit seems to bear no relation to the actual grave underneath. Bones belonging to this layer may also have been mixed in to (14217) and (14221), above and below.

Correction following full excavation - deposit seems to be backfill? Or cut into an otherwise empty grave. 

Recognition: Presence of bones 

Definition: relatively poor 

Execution: trowel and brush 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: Quite loose 

Colour: grey with a brownish hue 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: mixed (root interference) 

Inclusions: bone - human and animal, ceramics, v. infrequent obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: Root and animal mixing 

Basal Boundary: Indistinct, undefined, vague! Upon excavation, became a shallow deposit of human bones with a limit clearly defined by the bones 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 14221 below: (Click to view the record) 14217 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

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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