Discussion: Both patella's are present, but both have shifted slightly. Both lower legs are in reasonable condition. Both feet are present, but jumbled making their position impossible to determine. Though they probably both extended Eastwards.
There are iron nail throughout the grave, and one lay between the skeletons ankles. A glass? token was found next to the head on the North side, a glass vial was next to the head on the South side. The head and upper torso appear to have sunk somewhere into the midden below - large animal burrows were directly under the human bones. A large rock sat below the skeleton's feet. The skeleton's long bones did not survive removal very well, but the rest of it survived with only minor to moderate damage. We had to cut into the midden below to remove the skull.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: Body lies extended and supine, with its head to the West and its feet to the East. The centre of the torso is quite disarranged and damaged - some ribs and vertebrae are out of place.
Head: Is slumped forward looking South at its own right shoulder. A roughly triangular piece of skull is missing from the forehead over the right eye., and another portion of the skull is missing at the back.
Right Arm: Lower part of the humurus missing truncated by animal burrow. Lower part of arm present but damaged lying alongside the body. Right hand is mostly gone, only a few bones remain next to the femur.
Left Arm: Lower part of the humurus missing truncated by animal burrow. Lower part of arm present but damaged lying alongside the body. Left hand is damaged and lies next to the hip.
Right Leg: Extended. Right femur badly damaged.
Left Leg: Extended. Left femur is mostly intact.
Other comments:
Surface Modifications: None noticable upon excavation, although grave fill included a lot of burnt material and a bit of burnt horn core in the eyesocket (residual?).
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
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 Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2
Unit description: Tiny unit consisting of just 2 bones: an 07 size long bone shaft, slightly burnt, and a charred piece of cattle horn core. From notes included with the pieces they appear to come from around a human skeleton, with the long bone from part inside the human skull, and the horn core from the eye socket! Since these pieces do not appear to be grave goods, it seems likely that they were part of the backfill into the grave. Condition is good in both cases. Horn core probably freshly broken. Both put in scrap.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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