Unit 1993

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Dimensions: 1.10 m x 0.60 m 

Discussion: To W, this was left last year, reason uncertain, overlying layer currently unknown. A skull was found against W edge and upon removal, an articulated torso & pelvis reaching across to E edge, roughly within the bounds of the cut for burial 29.
The fill is therefore treated as (1993) within this reconstructed cut though the description was given for the W edge. Below the pelvis, parts of a leg & foot have appeared, running under the E edge & a cut has been traced in the uppermost levels which may yet prove to be all part of this (16/08 - excavation seriously affected by storms) 

Execution: trowel, leaf, stick, spoon, brush 

Condition: hot & dry - torrential rain & wind (over 4 days) 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: 10YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown 

Texture: sandy silty clay (sand 5%), sand is minor, but sufficient to affect plasticity 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal <1cm, <2%; greeny plaster <2cm, <2%; shell <1cm, <2%; salts? <5-10% in areas; clay aggregates <1cm, <2% 

Post-depositional Features: white residue around skull (1995), could be residue, or plaster, or salting. Truncated to E and N for burial 29, and top probably truncated too. Root disturbance esp. around skull (1995) 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1995 below: (Click to view the record) 1470, 1971 

Dry sieve volume: 25 

Total Deposit Volume: 50 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

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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