Unit 2194

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Dimensions: 44? x 23 x 9 cm (the 44 may be 34 if the cut didn't really extend over shelf) 

Discussion: There were many voids in the fill around the skeleton, particularly around the arms below the ribs. Lots of chalk in this fill too. It is not clear whether the cut originally extended all the way to the N - this area has a clay fill which is shallow and comes onto a ledge, cutting down where the 'real' fill is.
A lot of charcoal / burning & a big stone beneath skull / upper body, pushed point down (it is wedge-shaped) into the fill below but covered with ash / blackened. 

Execution: leaf, dental pick, brush 

Condition: warm - hot, calm, dry 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 10 YR 5/4 - 4/4 

Texture: loam (+clay) 

Bedding: Massive / convolute? - really massive but in additional, different material added as backfill. This takes the form of clean clay chunks and aggregates as the probable deliberate fill plus some of the (massive) charcoaly midden-type make-up layer into which this burial was cut. 

Inclusions: Charcoal <2cm, 5%; chalk pieces <2cm, 5% 

Post-depositional Features: non noticed, except accidental removal of E edge by someone removing the underlying deposit 

Basal Boundary:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2199 below: (Click to view the record) 2514 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 12

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

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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