Unit 20625
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Mixed burial fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: The excavation of the burials in the NE platform in B.77 (F.6051) started in 2011. Nine individuals were identified and five of these were lifted. The excavation of the burials started again in 2013 and after uncovering the burials the decision was made to start a unit of mixed burial fill U.20625 as many bones were fragmented and the relations between the different burials and individuals were unclear. This mixed burial fill is part of different units but the main part probably correlates with the underlying burial fill U.20686. The fill was excavated using a trowel. To narrow the distribution of the bones lying loose in the soil the platform cut as a whole was divided in five hypotethic parts (see the sketch). As the extension of the unit only covers the central and southern part of the platform, not including the northernmost part ( F.3620), not many bones were attributed to the NE or NW parts.
No plan made for this unit.
In the center of the platform a worked bone tool and a small fragment of a pinkish stone (perhaps part of the pink palette that was found in connection with a cranium in 2011?) were found.
Consistency: Fairly firm.
Colour: Mid grey brown.
Texture: Silty clay.
Bedding: Layered.
Inclusions: Charcoal, salt, phytolites, ash, bone.
Post-depositional Features: Salts.
Basal Boundary: Arbitrary.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 23
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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