Unit 22675

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill of secondary burial,robbed burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This is the fill of a large cut [u22679] made into the eastern platform F. 7952, which was easily visible in plan within the painted plaster layer u. 22684 across the entire platform. As expected, it did contain human remains--but mostly small elements including phalanges, ribs, and teeth. It was difficult to determine the difference between this fill and the surrounding platform matrix, but the soil changed to a much looser composition leading us to close the unit. We think that this is fill put back inside the burial cut after it was robbed out so that the larger human remains (e.g. long bones and crania) could be deposited elsewhere (possibly Sp. 77 burials). However, at the end of the 2015 season we discovered the fill (u. 22676) in the adjacent cut [u22681] contains more substantial human remains than initially thought, and the fill continues below where we had thought it would; it may turn out, upon further investigation, that the same is true in this feature as well. For now, however, we are considering it a closed unit.
Cut 22679 not fully defined in 2015. Nor was it fully excavated. The interface between 22675 and 22679 was sharp: There was a difference in compaction between 22675 and the deposit through which 22679 was cut. Also, disarticulated bone within in 22675 'peeled' off of 22679 at the interface. The homogeneity of 22675 was noticeably different from the layering visible within the walls of 22679.
Excavation of 22675 ceased at a depth of 0.44m, 1011.34 m OD . 

Consistency: friable, the deeper it was dug, the more compact it was 

Colour: grey, dark brown at the bottom 

Texture: sandy loam, clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoals 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: diffuse, determined by the transition to much looser soil 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22679 below: (Click to view the record) 22683 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 308 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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:

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

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