Unit 16463

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Discussion: The fill of the burial was heavily disturbed by plant action and animal burrows. Because of the proximity to the surface (and the abundance of trampling throughout the season) the skeleton was already largely visible and in very poor condition. The north-eastern section of the burial was truncated by a late burial (16443), removing parts of the skeleton,, namely the feet. The fill also contains some of the fill (16473) from the juvinille burial below (16474). 

Recognition: fill of grave in grave cut - but cut likely series of cuts in a multi-burial 

Definition: poor 

Execution: trowel, bamboo skewer, assorted dental tools 

Condition: hot, dry and windy 

Consistency: loose and friable 

Colour: light greyish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive (but possibly layered) 

Inclusions: very occassional shell, obsidian; neolithic skeleton 

Post-depositional Features: root disturbance and animal burrows, truncated by late burial 

Basal Boundary: poor onto juvenile burial, sharper onto harder more grey layer 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 16465 below: (Click to view the record) 16443 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 38 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

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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