Unit 23235

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial Fill 

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

Discussion: Layer partially visible after remove the earliest floor/make up (U21895) of B-17, but clearly defined after remove the floor U23203 and exposed the midden U23227. The layer was distinct by the presence of clay, remains of plaster and other building materials that defined an oval shape deposit, completely different for the rest of the greyish loose midden around.
The upper part of this layer was sealing the burial F8452, once the first bones of the skeleton were exposed, the layer change the composition, becoming more grey and loose. Around the edges of this deposit and the skeleton we defined a thin orchard layer, 1-2 mm thick that extended also below the bones. The whole skeleton was full of this pigment, so we don’t know if they placed a kind of base of this pigment in the bottom of the cut, and then they placed the body, or the process was backwards, they place the body and covered with orchard, and what we found was the natural deposition through the body decomposition. 

Consistency: Loose 

Colour: Dark grey 

Texture: Clay and silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal, natural stones and flecks of building mateirial in the upper part ot the deposit, 

Post-depositional Features: Not observed 

Basal Boundary: truncated, diffuse and smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23227 below: (Click to view the record) 21895, 23203 

Total Deposit Volume: 56 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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