Unit 20991
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Burial fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial
Discussion: This unit was recognized with a regular oval shape in plan beneath a patch of floor (u.20986). It was situated in F3699 and was a fill in a cut in this feature (u.20997). It was a quite massive layer, but truncated by animal furrows. Approximately six cm down, the cranium of a neonate was detected, as well as a packed gray clay lense. Initially I thought this was a new fill, but as excavation preceded (carefully of course) it became obvious it belonged to the same filling event. All layer was sampled, but in two separate samples because of the confusion of lenses (see above).
Even though disturbed by rodents, the fill was quite homogenous and did not contain finds of any particular nature, except X1, an obsidian flake piece, by the baby and a phalanx of animal in the top of the fill.
Consistency: Moist, packed soil. Friable with trowel.
Colour: Light greyish brown
Texture: Sandy silt
Bedding: Massive
Inclusions: Small sized pebbles (few) inclusion a grey packed floor lense ca 6 cm down.
Post-depositional Features: Big root etchings, animal furrowing, especially in its eastern part
Basal Boundary: Clear and abrupt
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 9
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
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
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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: 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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