Unit 2237

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Grave fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 40cm x 161cm 

 

Discussion: The excavation of this burial proceeded quite smoothly. We were quite interested to see thart thay had put the coffin in right by alongside Neolithic wall, which appears to have fallen in and crushed of the left side of the skeleton at some point. Because of the position of this Neolithic wall it was necessary to put this burial at an angle slightly off the East-West axis that the other. (Roman?) burials in this area were aligned with. An idea flying around the goddess pavilion: that these christians were familiar with the Neolithic architecture up here and had their own folklore about CatalHoyuk, of course they didn't call it Catal, but maybe someting like "Moundus Forkedus".
The baulk was excavated over the width of the burial in order to take out the legs of our (Roman?)
deceased, and two grave goods were found at his/her (?) feet: a ceramic amphora, about 20cm in length and in perfect condition, and a tiny little oil lamp, about 5cm in diameter.

X1 coordinates given from an estimation of its location to x2. CAH 24/08/09 

 

Consistency: moderately weak 

Colour: 10YR 4/2 dark greyish brown 

Texture: siltish loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Human bone inclusions, lots of tiny roots and stone burnt mudbrick inclusions - only one or two. 

Post-depositional Features: lots of rootrs 10%, a couple animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: Grave! 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2244 

 

Dry sieve volume: 137 

Total Deposit Volume: 189 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 86

Features:: (Click to view the record) 153 (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: 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 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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