Unit 23770

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

Discussion: This unit was recognized as a grave fill sealing three individual in burial F.3896 within cut 23771. Unit 23770 was truncated on its top by huge post-Neolithic truncation (destruction cut U.30887) which damage almost entire S part of B.166 (Sp.515). This unit is same as U.23914 running underneath within the boundary of same grave cut U.23771. U.23914 was primarily created as succeeding fill unit in case of discovering that the earliest individual was interred as a separate burying event. 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Dark Brown 

Texture: Silty-clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Charcoal bits, 

Post-depositional Features: Roots, rodents activity, post-Neolithic truncation (U.30877) 

Basal Boundary: Clear, constructional, partially 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23772 

Dry sieve volume: 30 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): II 

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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