Unit 1958

Category: cut    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: grave cut,pit 

 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

 

Dimensions: 0.50 m long, 0.25m wide, 0.20 m deep (max) 

 

Discussion: Cut of a small grave pit, used for the inhumation of burial (s) 42a + 42b. Though bones are disarticulated, the regular nature of the cut and the relatively careful linear 'bundling' of the bones suggests a deliberate act of internment rather than the digging of a random hole to dispose of bones exposed during other digging / remodelling activities within the building.
The Western edge of the cut truncates deposit [1488], a plaster floor that probably represents the first phase of the building. Later plaster floors had possibly begun to slump into the fill of cut [1958]. However, I did not excavate any of these, and am consequently not certain of this stratigraphic relationship. [1958] may well be cut from a higher level 

 

Execution: trowel, hand shovel 

Condition: dry, warm 

Shape: roughly subrectangular, though the noth-western corner is not on an angle (almost rhomboidal) 

Sides: sides=smooth, steep and regular. The northern sides drops at approx. 2 ini (60degrees) but the eastern and western edges= almost vertical. The eastern edge is even very slightly undercut. 

Base Break: these= relatively gentle + concave. 

Base: the base is gently concave, and subrectangular in plan. Slopes gently to the east. 

Orientation: orientation= markedly e-w 

All Layers within:unit 1956 (deposit) + burials 42 A + 42 B = within this cut.

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1982, 1488 below: (Click to view the record) 1961 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1948 

 

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 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 71

Features:: (Click to view the record) 42 (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

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ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

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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