Unit 16073

Category: Cut    dug in 2007

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Dimensions: 0.90 m x 0.30 m x 0.24 m 

Discussion: Grave Cut - N-S aligned late period burial (Byzantine). The North-South alignment is rather strange. The burial is of a juvenile and contained nails marking the location of a now decayed wooden coffin and on the chest was a small fragile glass vessel.

The grave was cut from the top soil and it appears to be byzantine. 

Recognition: Cut for coffin (16071) 

Definition: Rectangular 

Execution: Trowel excavated (condense) 

Condition: Hot. SOO hot! 

Shape: Rectangular 

Sides: Vertical or near vertical 

Base Break: Sharp 

Base: Flat 

Orientation: N-S 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16053 below: (Click to view the record) 16071 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

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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