Unit 2212

Category: Layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: -,Burial fill 

 

Dimensions: 1.95 x 0.60 m 

 

Description: A mix of silty and ashy lenses, with quite dark as well as reddish patches in the red basically gray-brown soil. The soil is fairly dry + crumbly. Some building material remains are in the fill-burned clay fragments, mostly. A couple loose and unidentifiable bone chips are also in the fill apart from the skeleton - bioturbation is probably the culprit. 

 

Discussion: Rectangular burial oriented E-W, clearly outlined in plan at top as fill of loose, dark soil in matrix of lighter, more compact soil. Some animal bones are visible. X2 immediately next to/ in contact with displaced metacarpal (?) on edge of animal burrow. But given old breaks, probably in fill of grave or burrow. Fill of burial is variable, relatively sterile, but does contain small anounts of animal bone, charcoal, brick, etc. Several animal burrows run through the burial. A glass flask (X1) lay under the right side of the head. Iron nails around the periphery indicate the presence of a coffin. Some bones have been scattered by animal activity, but most are in place.

( From soil description) A mix of silty and ashy lenses, with quite dark as well as reddish patches in the red basically gray-brown soil. The soil is fairly dry + crumbly. Some building material remains are in the fill-burned clay fragments, mostly. A couple loose and unidentifiable bone chips arte also in the fill apart from the skeleton - bioturbation is probably the culprit. 

 

Execution: trowel, dental picks, brushes 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 10YR 7/2 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: burnt clay, plant remains 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation (roots) 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2231 

 

Dry sieve volume: 195 

Total Deposit Volume: 306 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 6

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 88

Features:: (Click to view the record) 151 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 1  Unit description: X2 is a fragment of a bone ring, found in an area of animal disturbance and probably intrusive.

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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