Unit 17938

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial

 

Dimensions: .51m N-S, .37m E-W, .10m deep 

 

Discussion: Fill surrounding skeleton (17939) of small child, approximately 5-6 years old, pending analysis. (Analysis revealed skeleton was 2-3 years old). Fill was friable compared to surrounding dirt, without much color differentiation. Also present in the fill was a shell with red pigment on the inside. This burial is a remainder from the 2008 field season when the building was thought to be excavated down to construction 

 

Recognition: fill present around skeleton 

Definition: poor 

Execution: trowel and small tools 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: orange-brown 

Texture: homogenous 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: human bone, one shell, med charcoal, med obsidian, construction fill 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: cut - phytolith lining 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17939 below: (Click to view the record) 17496 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 18 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 49

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 100

Features:: (Click to view the record) 4028 (burial)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2009 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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