Unit 14221

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

Area: Trench 5 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Dimensions: 2.4 x 0.7 at east end x 0.3m at west end 

Discussion: Deposit identified as sediment between brick walls. No burial cut in the true sense was ever identified, but human bones had turned up in layer above (14219), and seemed to respect the brick wall ((14227 + 14228). So a separate number was taken out for it. No articulated bones were ever found, and no bones existed in western half of grave. Thus it appears that the grave was never used/was emptied at some point. Brick walls are fairly messed about by rodents, possibly by subsequent intrusion as well - thus the latter option of grave robbing seems likely. 

Recognition: Colour and loose consistency 

Definition: clear in places, invisible in others 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Consistency: loose and friable 

Colour: greyish brown 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: human bone (some possibly included in 14219), pot, obsidian, clay ball, brick. 

Post-depositional Features: truncated by later activity ("robbing pit?") 

Basal Boundary: Clea to N and S, bordered by brick walls. Either end is vague before excavation 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 14227, 14228 below: (Click to view the record) 14219 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

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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