Unit 16426

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

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

Discussion: Although boundary of the fill (and the cut) was unclear in some places, it was defined by a coffin nail at the foot of the burial (the eastern end), wooden coffin timber line at the southern and northern edges. As it was cutting into the walls of building 77, the walls helped define the cut at the southern and northern sides. 

Recognition: filling cut and walls and coffin timber trace 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: loose to firm 

Colour: greyish brown, ashy black, reddish brown 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: skeleton, animal bone, brick and burnt brick parts, coffin nails, and coffin timber 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows and roots 

Basal Boundary: irregular 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16427 below:+

Dry sieve volume: 150 

Total Deposit Volume: 150 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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