Unit 2114

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Dimensions: 113 l.x40w.(cm) 

Discussion: Field covering skeleton 2115 in cut 2117. Within it are traces of phytolith? around hand & leg areas in particular; also dark/ black organic remains on mid-left ribs inside (or underneath ?) and below legs. Also pieces of grey pigment & possible scatter of the same below moist area, and also yellow ochre in the same area. Chunks of plaster in lower fill above the body suggest the pit was cut through a floor, & not pre-floor.
The interface below this layer & those surrounding it is unclear- where it joins 2121 covering the adjacent skeleton, its relationship with 1978 which was within cut 1988 but contained no bones, its base (disturbed by block lifting of parts of skeleton. 2115) could not be established properly. Contamination from midden type deposit below is reflected in the presence of pieces of charcoal from the dry sieve. 

Execution: trowel, loaf 

Condition: hot, cool, windy 

Consistency: mod. weak 

Colour: variable- 10YR 4/3 brown 

Texture: sandy silty clay (<5% sand) 

Bedding: massive (but mixed) 

Inclusions: charcoal <2%, <1cm; plaster <2%,<2cm; salting<2% 

Post-depositional Features: cut by 2116 for skeleton 1995 and possibly redeposition of 1968 and 1963. 1995 may be redeposited too.Also roots 

Basal Boundary: diisturbed by block lifting of fragile/ interlocked bones, but was clear & anthropogenic. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2115 below: (Click to view the record) 1988 

Dry sieve volume: 55 

Total Deposit Volume: 83 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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